Reading Time: 4 minutes Rising land costs, not construction, to blame for housing unaffordability
Author: Wendell Cox
Wendell Cox is a consultant specializing in urban policy (housing, land use, transportation, governance), demographics and intercity transport and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute.
Calgary’s downtown is facing a difficult future
Reading Time: 4 minutes Residential growth in the city core may remain its biggest hope
Canadians on the move, to smaller communities
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas
Cities have to expand for house prices to fall
Reading Time: 3 minutes Land use policies the main culprit. Just look at Toronto
Housing affordability lies at the very heart of inequality
Reading Time: 4 minutes Government land-use regulations a principal source of this inequality
Ontario land use policies make housing unaffordable
Reading Time: 3 minutes Young people aren’t able to afford the homes they grew up in
Policy restrictions have caused the housing crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Urban containment regulations on the urban fringe must be relaxed