"Kudos" to the Trudeau government for proposing the use of vouchers for low income housing and homelessness. It is too bad that even in the most successful economies, many people have insufficient means to provide their own housing. Vouchers are a better way to...
Housing Affordability
RBC Report Highlights Increasing Housing Affordability Challenges
Households could face even greater housing affordability challenges in the years to come, according to the September 2017 RBC Economics (RBC) Housing Trends and Affordability report. In noting that " The days of ultra low interest rates in Canada are over," RBC...
Inter-Municipal Co-operation and Reform: Municipal Amalgamations
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Inter-municipal co-operation and reform: Municipal Amalgamations. This paper is co-authored by Wendell Cox and Ailin He. Wendell Cox is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the principal...
Why Young Canadians Can’t Afford To Buy a Home
Canada’s middle-income housing affordability crisis (unaffordable homes) is drawing considerable attention, with good reason. Families are being squeezed out of the market and the situation is only going to worsen. Frontier Centre publications, such as the Demographia...
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Fostering a Constructive, Business-Friendly Regime Sustains Innovation, Not Government Money
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Big Tech Influence Can Tip Elections
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
Breaking News: Rent Control Still Bad Policy
A Frontier Centre Op-ed in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix explains why rent control fails.
This Shouldn’t be News
Allowing low income housing to be built should not be front page news in Regina.
Reinventing Suburbs
Where is that seven acre warehouse going to move to?
Rent Control Advocates Retreat (in fifth gear): How far can Manitoba’s rent control recede before it’s completely pointless?
According to a recent paper written for the provincial government, Manitoba’s rent regulations are almost completely ineffectual.
Rent Control that isn’t
A Frontier op-ed appearing in the Winnipeg Free Press outlines the hollow policy that is Manitoba rent control.
Media Release – Toronto: 3 Cities in More Than One Way
Since the 1998 municipal amalgamation of the Megacity of Toronto there has developed a culture war: The culture war between the suburbs and the core is an acknowledgement of the zero sum game created by the Megacity.
Toronto: 3 Cities in More Than One Way
Since the 1998 municipal amalgamation of the Megacity of Toronto there has developed a culture war: The culture war between the suburbs and the core is an acknowledgement of the zero sum game created by the megacity.
Who’s Being Subsidised?
Saskatchewan prolongs the folly of government housing investment.
786 Square Feet in Canada’s Second-Least Affordable City
For decades, conventional wisdom said your house should cost about 2 1 /2 times your family income. But a study released by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy two weeks ago showed the Canadian average price-to-income ratio is now 4.6 to one.