Media Release - Cities Should Fight Poverty, Not Increase It
– April 16, 2013
Today the Frontier Centre released the backgrounder Toward More Prosperous Cities by Wendell Cox. The objective of public policy should be to achieve wide-spread affluence and eradicate poverty. Cities, urban policy, and urban transport are means to facilitate this objective, not ends themselves.
What’s Wrong With Renting Sheds to Poor?
– January 27, 2012
The fact that a man in Winnipeg faces charges for renting a shed in his backyard should lead us to question how restrictive housing and renting policies are creating the situation.
8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
– January 23, 2012
The Frontier Centre releases a survey of 325 housing markets in seven countries including 35 from Canada. Vancouver is now the second least affordable housing market in the English speaking world, with the Prairies improving and Toronto continuning a long term trend of declining affordability.
Canadian Housing Affordability in One Page
– January 23, 2012
A one page look at housing affordability across 35 Canadian markets according to the 8th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability survey.
Untax Buildings, Uptax Land
– November 28, 2011
PowerPoint slides which accompanied former Green Party Leader of Ontario, Speaker, Writer Frank de Jong's speech Untax Buildings, Uptax Land that he gave in Calgary, Regina and Winnipeg late November 2011.
7th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
– January 24, 2011
The latest edition of the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey puts Canadian housing affordability in perspective amongst 325 housing markets world wide.
Media Release: 7th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
– January 24, 2011
Media Release for the 7th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.
Joel Kotkin: Why Housing Affordability Matters
– January 24, 2011
"Uber Geographer" Joel Kotkin weighs in on the housing affordability debate, arguing that limits imposed on housing supply by housing ethoses such as "smart growth" are taking us to a paradigm of neo-feudalism.
UNICEF’s Guilt Trip
– December 20, 2010
Putting Canada at the bottom of the list for housing poor children is absurd. As with all statistical arguments, understanding the UNICEF report requires a careful eye and a healthy dose of skepticism. The study focuses on relative differences; that is, the gap between children in the middle of the income distribution and the average below that line. Exclusively relying on relative indicators is a highly contentious, and generally misleading, way to examine poverty. The UNICEF report is no exception.
What's Driving Olympics Homeless Protesters (in News)
– February 18, 2010
"The provincial government bills British Columbia as the "Best Place on Earth" but rarely mentions that Vancouver is also among the least affordable places in the world to find a home."
Gimme Shelter, For The Homeless
– January 7, 2010
Canada’s homeless population is primarily a symptom of a restrained housing supply, and government initiatives will continue to fail while the underlying cause is not addressed.
Freedom to Build:Homes For The Homeless
– January 6, 2010
Canada’s homeless population is primarily a symptom of a restrained housing supply, and government initiatives will continue to fail while the underlying cause is not addressed.
Media Release - Needed: Freedom to Build—For the Homeless
– January 6, 2010
The policy responses to homelessness, while numerous, have not addressed the primary cause: the restrained supply of private housing, which for the last two decades has been a significant reason the homeless proportion of the population has grown so rapidly.
Neither Charity Nor Bulldozers Prevent Slums
– June 17, 2009
The root cause of slums is not unexpected population growth or shortage of land: It is a double plague of a lack of property rights and poor planning policies — from Kenya to Brazil.
West Coast Cities Hit Worldwide 'Most Unaffordable' List
– February 5, 2009
The cost of buying a home in Canada contrasts significantly from coast to coast, with some of the world's least affordable cities on the West Coast, while some markets in Eastern Canada remain relatively inexpensive, according to a survey of cities worldwide released yesterday.
Still a 'Severely Unaffordable' City
– February 4, 2009
It's No Longer Cheap to Live in Regina
– February 2, 2009
Housing Affordability Falls
– February 2, 2009
5th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
– January 28, 2009
The 5th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey expands coverage to 265 markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Housing Affordablilty – The Global Perspective
– January 28, 2009
Putting Canada's housing affordability in a global perspective. |
