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1. Job Creation and Housing Starts in Canada’s Largest Metropolitan Areas

   Canada’s economy has generated millions of new jobs over the last two decades, with the total number of employed people nationwide growing by 4.1 million between 2001 and 2019 (a 27.6% increase). Though growth in employment is unambiguously positive, it ...

2. Changes in the Affordability of Housing in Canadian and American Cities, 2006–2016

   By bringing together workers, capital, businesses, and ideas in a compact geographic market, cities promote improved productivity performance, and thereby faster economic growth and higher real incomes for workers. The affordability of housing in a city ...

3. Two proposed projects—one in Ontario, one in B.C.—throw renters a lifeline

   In the greater Toronto and Vancouver areas, rents keep rising and rental vacancies remain low. ...

4. Most effective pro-housing reforms have nothing to do with more government spending

   According to a recent poll of British Columbia parents, 65 per cent of respondents believe it’s likely their child or children will have to move away from their home municipality due to the high cost of living. Of course, B.C.’s sky-high ...

5. Groundhog Day in the Golden State—how plans to boost affordability in California keep failing

   The situation in California has important implications for Canada’s least-affordable cities including Vancouver and Toronto. ...

6. How Ottawa can tackle the housing shortage

   After years of the federal government tinkering with housing demand (the mortgage stress-test, the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive and other stick-and-carrot approaches to how people can purchase homes), it’s clear that housing ...

7. Ontario makes encouraging housing moves

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, May 15, 2019 The Ford government recently announced the broad strokes of its “ housing supply action plan ” aimed at getting a greater number and variety of much-needed homes built in Ontario’s least affordable communities ...

8. Trudeau housing plan ignores local drivers of affordability

   Tuesday’s federal budget committed to “help make homeownership more affordable for first-time home buyers,” notably through “shared equity mortgages” aimed at lowering monthly mortgage payments, and increasing the amount first-time buyers ...

9. Bank of Canada says housing crunch threatens Canadian economy

   In a recent speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade, Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins presented an overview of the challenges facing Canada’s economy. Among the issues she discussed were impediments to wage growth. Of ...

10. Midwest cities lead fight for housing affordability while coastal 'superstar' cities fall behind

    Grand Rapids, Michigan scrapped single-family zoning. ...