Reading Time: 3 minutes When new homes don’t keep up with demand, buyers or renters bid for a dwindling pool of listings, pushing prices up and people out
Author: Josef Filipowicz
Josef Filipowicz is a local government and housing policy specialist with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Ryerson University. From September 2014 to April 2020, Josef was a policy analyst at the Fraser Institute’s Centre for Municipal Studies, where he was the author of more than 15 studies on land-use regulations, housing affordability, property taxation, and municipal finance. He also commented frequently on policy issues in these fields, notably through radio and television interviews, panel discussions, public presentations, and more than 140 blogs and op-eds.
Ontario must address housing affordability
Reading Time: 3 minutes Best practices from homebuilder-friendly neighbours can teach municipalities how to allow the supply of new housing to meet demand
Red tape in Calgary-Edmonton Corridor stifling housing supply
Reading Time: 3 minutes Encouraging a healthy supply of new homes where they are most needed will help ensure future generations can continue to prosper in Alberta
What homebuilders think about Ontario’s housing regulations
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reduce housing barriers to help ensure that Canada’s largest urban area remains affordable and keeps attracting the best and brightest
Palo Alto, Calif. provides a cautionary tale for Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes A typical home in Palo Alto goes for about $2.5 million because of onerous land-use regulations, much like those in Vancouver
Rule of law under attack in B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes By imposing a tax on already signed agreements, B.C. is demonstrating a worrisome indifference to the rule of law
Red tape, not foreign buyers, drives housing affordability woes
Reading Time: 4 minutes Heavy-handed policies have consequences that are worse than the problem they seek to fix
Foreign purchase tax ignores crucial source of housing unaffordability
Reading Time: 4 minutes A tax on foreign buyers may seem like an easy fix but it ignores the fact the housing supply is not keeping up with demand
A simple solution to the high cost of housing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cutting local red tape will increase housing stock and reduce prices in Toronto, Vancouver and beyond
Local GTA governments have tools to increase housing supply, affordability
Reading Time: 4 minutes Urban constraints to affordable housing could eventually push Toronto’s information economy to where housing is cheaper