Housing Affordability

  Frontier’s Demographia 2025 report finds that urban containment strategies such as greenbelts and growth boundaries primarily drive Canada’s housing affordability crisis. By artificially limiting land available for housing, these […]
Published on May 13, 2025

 

Frontier’s Demographia 2025 report finds that urban containment strategies such as greenbelts and growth boundaries primarily drive Canada’s housing affordability crisis. By artificially limiting land available for housing, these policies have contributed to surging prices and a wider cost-of-living crisis.

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