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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. Vancouver’s latest policy on rental development—big bang, or more timid tinkering?

    The more floors allowed in new projects, the more feasible they become. ...

  3. Rent control doesn’t help renters—but building more apartments does

    Over the last 12 months, apartment building completions in Toronto reached a 25-year high. ...

  4. Another budget, another missed opportunity to tackle B.C.'s housing shortage

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, February 25, 2019 With last week’s budget, the Horgan government had another opportunity to increase housing affordability—a perennial concern now embedded in British Columbia’s landscape. Governments come, governments go, ...

  5. Politicians get rent relief—but what about the GTA's 700,000 renter households?

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, February 2, 2019 Escalating housing costs continue to squeeze Torontonians. With a vacancy rate of around 1 per cent, average rent prices in the GTA rose 4.9 per cent over the last year. Provincial politicians living in ...

  6. New reports underscore renter woes in Toronto and beyond

    In the Greater Toronto Area, monthly rents rose by $63, on average. ...

  7. Horgan government rent-capping will likely hurt renters in the long run

    Appeared in the Vancouver Province, October 3, 2018 In its latest move on the housing front, the Horgan government this week pegged annual rent increases to inflation (estimated at 2.5 per cent in 2019), citing affordability concerns in Metro Vancouver ...

  8. Why a ‘renters rebate’ won’t help Metro Vancouverites

    In a recent interview, B.C. Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Selina Robinson reaffirmed the provincial government’s commitment to a “renters rebate” of $400 per renter household, annually. As appealing as this idea may sound to ...