Good morning subscribers! One week on, the dust may have settled around the Trudeau government’s “Innovation Budget,” but that doesn’t mean the pundits’ takes have cooled off. For the past seven days, we’ve read opinion pieces from Tofino, BC to Truro, NS – 28.4 billion of them – on what’s included, what’s left out, and…
Tag: Housing
What Budget 2017 means for young Canadians
Natalie Brunet & Caleb Holden Last March, a careful listener might have been able to pick out the collective sigh of Canadian youth as they realized that the Trudeau Government’s first budget – touted as his chance to deliver on the many promises in the Liberal platform directed at 18-24 year olds – had come…
Building Singapore: An Exploration of Public Housing
Haris Khan By most measures, Singapore is an extremely wealthy country: It ranks third in GDP per capita (PPP), 3.5 percent of its population are Dollar millionaires, and living here for four months has vastly expanded my ability to name supercars on sight. Given this enormous wealth, I was surprised to learn that 82 percent…
A Primer on Inclusive Zoning
Alyssa Wali Earlier this month, the government of Ontario announced its intention to give municipalities the ability to increase affordable housing units for lower to middle income households. Through the newly released inclusionary zoning measures, municipalities will have the option to mandate that developers include a percentage of affordable housing in new residential developments. Inclusionary…
Precarious Housing and Psychiatric Disability: How to Ensure Development over Displacement
Shelby Challis Individuals who experience psychiatric disability are too often forced to navigate their way through precarious housing situations and manage these situations with little support. The social conditions of our housing economy are deteriorating to a point where they not only provide little alleviation for those suffering from adverse mental health conditions, but they…
Trudeau’s New Year’s Resolution: Improve Public Transit
Mohamad Yaghi Road works, traffic jams, and long drives – these are all typical everyday experiences urban commuters in major Canadian cities face. Often, many rightly complain that travel to and from work takes a considerable amount of time out of their day, but, contrary to the popular discourse, there have been substantial improvements to…
