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1. 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. ...

2. 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 ...

3. Ontario government proposals could boost housing supply, increase affordability

   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. Though it’s unclear how the ...

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. Ford must back up housing rhetoric with concrete policies

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, January 3, 2019 As a new year approaches, the Ford government recently vowed to tackle housing affordability by growing the housing supply and asking the public for input on how to reduce regulatory barriers to homebuilding. As ...

7. New reports underscore renter woes in Toronto and beyond

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

8. Ontario takes important step towards rental affordability

   The Ford government today tabled its first fiscal update, giving Ontarians a glimpse of its direction in major areas of public policy. Of interest to Ontarians struggling to afford and/or attain rental housing, the update eliminated rent ...

9. 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 ...

10. Rent control in B.C.—bad policy then, bad policy now

    There are very few points upon which nearly all economists agree. So when more than 90 per cent of academic economists agree on something, policymakers should take note. For example, the vast majority of economists agree that rent ...