text: Britain keeps a good housing health stat - the number of months spent as a renter before becoming an owner, and the amount of cash thrown out the window as a result of being a renter. That's money that should have gone towards your home. With Canadian governments non-chalantly destroying lives willy nilly with idiotic housing policy and the lack of a national housing ownership strategy, citizens have to organize to change the field. Government doesn't know what  it is doing.