The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Calgary, 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
10th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2014
The 10th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey covers 360 metropolitan markets in nine geographies (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States). A total of 85 major...
Frontier Centre Releases 10th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
Today the Frontier Centre released the 10th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey. The survey covers 360 metropolitan housing markets in Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, The United Kingdom, and the United States, including 35 Canadian markets....
Correcting Priorities: The 10th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey
Alain Bertaud of the Stern School of Business at New York University and former principal planner of the World Bank introduces the 10th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey by urging planners to abandon: "...abstract objectives and to...
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
To Lower the Cost of Housing, Cut the Red Tape
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Suburbs Attacked Because Middle-Class Hates Plumbers in Big Houses
Sixty years ago this month something happened on Long Island near New York that was to help shape Australian cities. It deserves to be better known. The first homeowners moved into Levittown, a 17,000-residence housing estate built by Bill Levitt. Essentially, Levitt...
Not Time to Undo Major NDP Policy Success
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The Portland Epistles: More Delusion
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We’re all paying a terrible price for outrageously unaffordable housing – and it’s entirely unnecessary
“Relative to incomes, housing in major New Zealand cities is now some of the most expensive in the world,” Don Brash, chairman of the Centre for Resource Management Studies, told the Parliamentary select committee looking into the affordability of housing today. “And...
Lower Rural Prices a Benefit
Did I read this article correctly? Does it really take 7 years of median income to pay for a median house in these markets? If one takes the CMHC affordability measure of 30% of total income devoted to housing as being an “affordable” budget, then it would take this...
English Lessons in Creating Expensive Housing
Housing affordability has been virtually destroyed by government policy in many markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Honolulu Ranks Near Top in Housing Costs Survey
Honolulu is third-most expensive housing market among urban areas in the nation and in five other countries, according to a new survey. Honolulu's median multiple -- which calculates the median home price and median household income to rate affordability -- was 10.3,...
How the Housing Crisis Hurts Everyone
Australia’s housing affordability crisis stems from government policy.