Reading Time: 3 minutes Best practices from homebuilder-friendly neighbours can teach municipalities how to allow the supply of new housing to meet demand
Tag: Housing
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
Grits’ meddling in real estate market can only hurt
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s adjustments to mortgage rules – including a stress test for all insured loans – will cripple the Canadian economy
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
A national housing strategy will save Canadian lives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Not having a home can be lethal – homelessness causes premature death, poor health and is a significant burden on our health-care system
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
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
Two reasons why average families in Vancouver can’t afford housing
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Vancouver area’s sky-high real estate market looks even more inflated when seen in conjunction with the city’s below-average incomes
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