This annual report assesses housing affordability in 94 major markets across eight nations (Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom and the, United States). The 2024 edition focuses on data from the third quarter of 2023. KEY POINTS...
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Policy Series – Canada 2024: A Confident Resilient Nation or a Fearful Fractured Country?
Policy Series 243
Building 21st Century Transit Systems For Canadian Cities
Policy Series 241
2023 Edition Of Demographia Housing Affordability In Canada
Supplement to Demographia International Housing Affordability: 2023
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Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
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Upward Mobility Index 2020
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Restoring the ‘Canadian Brand’ – Countering Activist Misinformation on Canadian Mining Abroad
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The Tides Foundation Washes Over Canada
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16th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
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International Property Rights Index 2019
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Indigenous Entrepreneurship in the United States of America
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2018 International Property Rights Index
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2018 Contact: Lorenzo Montanari @: lmontanari@propertyrightsalliance.org 2018 International Property Rights Index Released The global index ranks property right protections in 125 countries, covering 98% of world GDP and 93% of the...
Regulatory Institutionalism in Canada
WINNIPEG, MB, December 14, 2017 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper Regulatory Institutionalism in Canada. This research paper is authored by Brogan Powlesland, a research associate with Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The...
Seven Myths About Green Jobs
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