Julianna Beckett

High housing costs are undermining economic growth in Canada, a new analysis by David Coletto, the founder of Abacus Data, says. As Canadians retire, he wrote, they typically reduce consumer spending, but in the past, that has been offset by spending by younger Canadians as they bought homes, renovated and furnished them and borrowed against … Read more

High housing costs are being driven by growing income inequality, a new study says. Prepared by a Canadian and three American professors, the study found that the cost of housing in the United States, owned or rented, rose as average per capita incomes rose since 1980. But income growth has been very concentrated among higher … Read more

Solutions to the housing crisis from across Canada: a film showing March 3 at the AGH Thinking Beyond the Market: Rethinking Canada’s Housing Crisis is a documentary about genuinely affordable housing that your Affordable Housing Team encourages you to come out and see when it’s shown in Hamilton on March 3. It takes a cross-Canada look … Read more

In a brief to the federal budget consultations, Bill Johnston of our Affordable Housing Team urged major federal investments, starting this fall, to build 2 million housing units renting for $1,000 or less. You can read this and other recommendations in his brief here.