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Leaders on the Frontier: Cost of Living Under Crisis with Charles Blain and Wendell Cox
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“It is absolutely impractical”
Cox: Downtown Rethink
This article entitled People in Toronto won't stop working from home and it's impacting the city paints a relatively negative picture about downtown prospects - noting that Toronto office vacancy rates have just hit their highest level since 1995. Looks like the...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Return to Reason Podcast – Wendell Cox – How to Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis
The housing market crisis in Canada has hit an all time high. Expert in demography, Wendell Cox has an eye-opening discussion with guest host David Craig about the public policies surrounding this issue, and how to solve the problems with supply, demand and...
A Conversation with Wendell Cox on Urban Containment Policy and Housing Affordability
Most communities in Canada are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Indeed, housing affordability is now identified in numerous opinion polls as one of the top issues for Canadians. What do we mean by housing affordability? What are the root causes of...
Patrik Schumacher, managing partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, and consultant Wendell Cox are both controversial figures in the urbanist world. They joined Aaron M. Renn in conversation to talk about their beliefs and what it's like to challenge the urbanist...
Cox on Urban Sprawl
Creating Satellite Towns to Accommodate Growth Makes Sense.
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline: Suburbs have more poor people mainly because they have more people, write Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox.
In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based press corps and cultural elite cheerfully sneer at each new sign of decline, most recently a study released Monday by the Brookings Institution—which has become something of a Vatican for anti-suburban theology—trumpeting the news that there are now 1 million more poor people in America’s suburbs than in its cities.
Wendell Cox – Housing Affordability in Vancouver
Watch Wendell Cox discuss housing affordability in Vancouver here. (3 minutes)
Media Release – Creating a Canadian Autobahn: The Frontier Centre releases a new study on a new study from Prof. Wendell Cox on the creation of a new, high-speed highway system across Canada
A new Canadian “autobahn” system proposed that includes significant upgrades to the Trans-Canada highway as well as the Yellowhead route, Edmonton and Calgary to the Canada-U.S. border, Ottawa to Sudbury and across the island of Newfoundland.
Rapid Use of Technology and Telecommuting – With Wendell Cox
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Wendell Cox, Urban Policy Expert
Urban policy expert and critic, Wendell Cox, talks about “smart growth” polices, and whether they have any value for Winnipeg.