Reading Time: 3 minutes As homes age, they should filter through various socio-economic strata. But construction approval roadblocks slow that process to a crawl
Tag: Housing
The work to end poverty and homelessness is just beginning
Reading Time: 4 minutes The National Housing Strategy’s $40-billion investment is good news for Canada. But the devil is in the details
Civic renewal that drains the soul – and people – from communities
Reading Time: 4 minutes When investor neighbourhoods replace residential ones, civic sustainability is the big loser
Open the door to more affordable housing in Calgary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Calgary’s new city council must encourage secondary suites, remove parking requirements and streamline permit processes
Ontario housing measures offer short-term gain but long-term pain
Reading Time: 3 minutes As much as rent control could benefit some existing renters, in the long run it reduces the incentive to build new rental housing
Don’t just blame speculators for soaring housing prices
Reading Time: 3 minutes Falling interest rates are an often-overlooked contributor to rising home prices in Canada’s most desirable markets
The prohibitive cost of living in Metro Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extraordinary run-up in real estate prices like the one experienced in the Lower Mainland raises the odds of a painful market correction
Ontario government’s focus on foreign buyers misses the point
Reading Time: 3 minutes Focus instead on reducing the time it takes to obtain a building permit and the per-unit costs to comply with regulations, which amounts to almost $50,000
The hard truth about soft economic policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes You don’t have to be an economist to know that rising interest rates will hurt a lot of Canadians but especially young families
How an NDP-Green government can free up B.C.’s housing supply
Reading Time: 3 minutes If housing affordability for average British Columbians is the goal, local and provincial governments should reduce barriers to development