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JOSH GORDON | PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 | If you follow the housing debates in Toronto and Vancouver, you’ll have undoubtedly heard the claim that the affordability challenges facing both cities are the result of supply problems. Common complaints include a lack of new housing, burdensome regulation and flawed zoning. This “supply narrative” has been … Read more

ALEX BOZIKOVIC | ARCHITECTURE CRITIC | PUB: JUNE 23, 2020 | Armour Gardens is a neighbourhood where you’re allowed to live, but you’re not allowed to die. That is the lesson that certain members of the community are sending this week. They are gearing up to prevent a new hospice from being constructed in their … Read more

By KERRY GOLD | PUBLISHED APRIL 17, 2020 | What will Vancouver look like in a post-COVID-19 world? That question, and the controversial issue of density, has been on a few minds lately. A report from the New Policy Institute, published April 12, reveals that areas of England where people are crammed together with fewer … Read more

By IAN MCGUGAN | PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 | If you asked people to name Canada’s two biggest economic challenges, many would list stratospheric home prices and plodding growth. Perhaps, then, it’s time to consider an idea that takes aim at both problems. The notion is simple enough: Do away with single-family zoning restrictions in … Read more

By KONRAD YAKABUSKI | PUBLISHED APRIL 5, 2019 | Canadian housing policy is, for the most part, a mess. Politicians talk endlessly about making housing more affordable. But most of their interventions in the housing market have had the opposite effect. At the very least, they’ve generated unintended consequences that have distorted the incentives faced … Read more