Across the developed economies housing crises are enabling far-right politicians to vilify migrants as the reason why younger people have no housing security and our own media conflates pressures in the NHS with net migration figures. The best counter to these narratives is for governments to solve these problems head on, despite the scale of the task. The Conservative Party of Canada is putting housing at the heart of their strategy to win back younger voters, demonstrating that this issue, if not handled correctly, can depose incumbent progressive parties.