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Focus on foreign buyers overlooks source of most housing demand in Canada
By Josef Filipowicz | December 20, 2017
Regulating short-term rentals in Vancouver—a Band-Aid that ignores key driver of rental crunch
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | November 30, 2017
Filtering—how markets, not national strategies, make housing affordable
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | November 28, 2017
City of Vancouver (finally) acknowledges importance of housing supply
By Josef Filipowicz | November 24, 2017
Trudeau government’s new housing benefit seems to ignore regional differences
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | November 22, 2017
Metro areas with more competing cities are more economically free
By Josef Filipowicz | November 14, 2017
Queen’s Park and Toronto City Hall put the squeeze on renters
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | November 10, 2017
Dear Montreal, don’t lose your housing advantage
By Josef Filipowicz | November 2, 2017
How the next Calgary City Council can boost the housing supply and increase affordability
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | October 30, 2017
Amazon HQ2—you can grow Vancouver’s economy without making housing less affordable
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | October 6, 2017
There’s a right way and a wrong way to attract businesses to your city
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | September 28, 2017
Canadians can access much bigger mortgages today compared to 15 years ago
By Josef Filipowicz | September 8, 2017
Advice for Toronto’s next chief planner—give Torontonians housing options
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | August 30, 2017
Ontario housing measures—short-term gain for long-term pain?
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | August 28, 2017
Falling interest rates—an often-overlooked contributor to rising home prices
By Niels Veldhuis, Josef Filipowicz | August 17, 2017
Interest Rates and Mortgage Borrowing Power in Canada
By Josef Filipowicz, Jason Clemens | August 17, 2017
Vancouver plan to boost housing supply ignores city hall red tape
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | July 31, 2017
By targeting foreign buyers, Queen’s Park misses the point
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | July 31, 2017
B.C. throne speech acknowledges importance of housing supply on affordability
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | June 23, 2017
How an NDP-Green government can free up B.C.’s housing supply
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | June 13, 2017
Ontario’s double-squeeze on new homes
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | May 17, 2017
To encourage more housing, Lower Mainland municipalities should shorten timelines and cut costs
By Kenneth P. Green, Josef Filipowicz | May 4, 2017
Housing in Vancouver—the city can’t be both low-density and affordable
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | May 4, 2017
It takes three times longer to obtain building permits in Vancouver than in Burnaby
By Kenneth P. Green, Josef Filipowicz | May 2, 2017
New Homes and Red Tape in British Columbia: Residential Land-Use Regulation in the Lower Mainland
By Kenneth P. Green, Josef Filipowicz | April 27, 2017
Ontario housing measures—too much on demand, too little on supply
By Ben Eisen, Josef Filipowicz | April 21, 2017
Rent control won’t solve Toronto’s rental affordability problem
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | April 19, 2017
Expanding rent controls in Ontario will further damage housing affordability
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz, Ben Eisen | April 6, 2017
B.C. government floats two promising ideas to address affordability and transportation woes
By Kenneth P. Green, Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | March 28, 2017
Rent control—proof bad policy ideas die hard
By Ben Eisen, Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | March 22, 2017
Once again, Mr. Sousa, taxing foreigners is not the answer to Toronto’s housing woes
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | March 17, 2017
When reviewing the OMB, Queen’s Park should not lose sight of housing affordability
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | March 14, 2017
City charters for Calgary and Edmonton—more local autonomy is good, more taxation isn’t
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | March 13, 2017
Is red tape on new homebuilding in Calgary pushing newcomers to the suburbs?
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | February 20, 2017
Let's make room for skilled workers in Metro Vancouver
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | February 17, 2017
B.C.’s interest-free loans could hurt new homebuyers more than it helps
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | January 10, 2017
Vancouver’s tax on vacant homes misses the point—we need to build more homes
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | November 28, 2016
Ontario opposes foreign buyers tax, but housing affordability must be addressed
By Kenneth P. Green, Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | November 8, 2016
Red tape in Calgary stifling housing supply as home prices soar
By Kenneth P. Green, Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | November 7, 2016
White House urges deregulation to boost housing supply—Canadian policymakers should take note
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | October 26, 2016
New Homes and Red Tape in Alberta: Residential Land-Use Regulation in the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor
By Kenneth P. Green, Josef Filipowicz, Ian Herzog | October 25, 2016
Governments should care what Ontario homebuilders think about regulation
By Kenneth P. Green, Josef Filipowicz | October 7, 2016
New Homes and Red Tape in Ontario: Residential Land-Use Regulation in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
By Kenneth P. Green, Ian Herzog, Josef Filipowicz | October 4, 2016
To address skyrocketing home prices, Ontario government could reduce barriers to building
By Ben Eisen, Josef Filipowicz | September 27, 2016
Palo Alto—a cautionary tale for Vancouver
By Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | September 6, 2016
Federal government touts Chinese investment while B.C. government discourages it
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | August 22, 2016
Retroactive nature of new tax on foreign owners threatens rule of law, investment in B.C.
By Kenneth P. Green, Josef Filipowicz, Steve Lafleur | August 11, 2016
Allow housing supply to react to housing demand in Toronto, Vancouver and beyond
By Kenneth P. Green, Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | August 8, 2016
To reduce housing costs in Toronto, cut red tape around new construction
By Ben Eisen, Josef Filipowicz, Kenneth P. Green | August 4, 2016
Backlog of development approvals aggravating housing woes in Metro Vancouver
By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz | August 3, 2016