<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks David.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have read the article and have questions about the role of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), that are buying up rental apartment homes, and pay no tax to the federal government.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wonder if the role of REITs in Canada is akin to what happened in the U.S.A.? Our friend David Gracey recommended a book to me on the tragedy unfolding there. The book is called: </div><h1 class="title notranslate" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: 'Open Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Homewreckers : how a gang of Wall Street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks, and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American dream</span></h1><div class="">A summary of the content, from the Toronto Public Library website, is;</div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; orphans: 3; widows: 3; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Open Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: "I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy," he said. But our future president wasn't alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes--their profiteering made even easier because, as prize-winning investigative reporter Aaron Glantz reveals in Homewreckers, they often used taxpayer money--and the Obama administration's promise to cover their losses.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; orphans: 3; widows: 3; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Open Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In Homewreckers, Glantz recounts the transformation of straightforward lending into a morass of slivered and combined mortgage "products" that could be bought and sold, accompanied by a shift in priorities and a loosening of regulations and laws that made it good business to lend money to those who wouldn't be able to repay. Among the men who laughed their way to the bank: Trump cabinet members Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump pal and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican cash cow Steve Schwarzman. Homewreckers also brilliantly weaves together the stories of those most ravaged by the housing crisis. The result is an eye-opening expose of the greed that decimated millions and enriched a gluttonous few.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stay hopeful;</div><div class="">Allan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 6, 2021, at 10:34 AM, David Walsh via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca" class="">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class="">T</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class="">his article in today’s Star gives a good overview of the rental housing business.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class="">I have attached a copy of the full article.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 3rem; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">The big business behind the affordable rental housing crunch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h1><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class=""><span class="c-author-badgeinitials"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: white;" class="">CD</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class=""><span class="articleauthor-by"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="">By </span></span><span class="articleauthor-name"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 114, 188); letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.thestar.com/authors.dobby_christine.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 114, 188); text-decoration: none;" class="">Christine Dobby</span></a></span></b></span><span class="articleauthor-credit"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="">Business Reporter</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class=""><span class="articlepublished-date"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="">Sat., March 6, 2021</span></span><span class="articlereadtime"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Material Icons', serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">timer</span></span><span class="articlereadtime"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="">12 min. read</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/03/06/the-big-business-behind-the-affordable-rental-housing-crunch.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/03/06/the-big-business-behind-the-affordable-rental-housing-crunch.html</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class="">David</span><span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><span id="cid:DB6EEFEE-C699-4325-A9DC-7B5CD86CE462@home"><The big business behind the affordable rental housing crunch.docx></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; 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