Many municipal politicians, particularly in mid-sized cities, aspire to turn their city into the next trendy place, following in the steps of Portland or Brooklyn. Meanwhile, lesser fashionable places such as Houston, Phoenix, and Atlanta are swallowing up migrants...
Housing Affordability
Frontier Centre Releases Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Vancouver
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Vancouver, a new report authored by Wendell Cox, a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre. Mr Cox is an expert in land use and transportation policy and the...
Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Vancouver
The average household can no longer afford a home in the average price range. Housing is so expensive in Vancouver that an additional annual income of between $22,000 and $40,000 is required for the average house, compared to other major metropolitan areas (Toronto,...
Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Calgary
Executive Summary Over the past two centuries, the world has become more urban, as people have moved to the cities to better their lives. Cities exist because, as large labour markets, they facilitate a higher standard of living for residents and reduce...
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‘Side Issues’ Result in Much Higher Costs to Our Health and Social Systems
As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers equal access to all. What country could...
Touted Climate Emergency for Calgary is Deceitful and Undemocratic
Calgary has sworn in its first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, she gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke...
Study Really Hits Home
Keeping company with the likes of Los Angeles, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Sydney, Australia, Kelowna has shown up on a list of “severely unaffordable” housing markets. “This year, we expanded our survey to include more Canadian cities, so Kelowna debuted as the...
Winnipeg’s Housing Affordability Ranking Drops 20 Places
Winnipeg has dropped 20 notches in an international ranking of the world's most affordable housing markets, thanks in part to its strong economic performance in recent years, according to a new study released Monday. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's fourth...
(Most of) Canada Tops International Housing Affordability
A new edition of the Demographia study shows dramatic differences in housing affordability across 29 Canadian cities, and points to the cause and the solution of unaffordable housing.
13 Canadian Cities Among Most Affordable Housing Markets in World
A major new study released today by Demographia and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy ranks Thunder Bay, ON, Saguenay, QC, Saint John, NB and St. John’s, NL, as among the most affordable housing markets in the world.
Canadian Cities Lead World Housing Affordability
Dramatic differences exist amongst affordability levels in Canadian cities. The median house in Thunder Bay costs 1.8 years’ income, whereas residents of Kelowna require 8.5 years’ income. FC046
Saskatoon Pricey Pick
Saskatoon’s ranking in an annual survey of affordable places to live across the globe has tanked. The Fourth Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey, which is publicly released today, ranked 227 cities in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Britain and...
Our Skyrocketing Living Standards
There has been an explosion in living standards in the United States and Canada, in most of Europe, in Japan, and in other places around the world that has brought the richest one billion people to what our counterparts 50 years ago would have considered the life of the rich.
Your Land Is Not Your Land
A Manitoba farmer recently lost a precedent setting court case against his local municipal government over the expropriation of his property for economic purposes.
Why Urban Planners Love Global Warming
Why Urban Planners Love Global Warming