The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Regina, 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...
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The Condo Game: CBC’s Curiously Apocalyptic Documentary on Toronto’s Condo Market
CBC aired a documentary on Toronto's condo market on November 21st that can be viewed here. It is notable for two reasons. First, it provides a prognosis for Toronto that is much darker than the most negative mainstream sources would suggest. Second, while it hints at...
Urban Containment and the Housing Bubble in Ireland
Source: Wendell Cox, NewGeography, 19 November 2013 Economist Colm McCarthy says that urban containment policy played a major role in the formation of the housing bubble. In a commentary in the Sunday Independent, Ireland’s leading weekend newspaper, McCarthy relates...
Florida Sheds Its ‘Smart Growth’ Dunce Hat
Wendell Cox, Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2013 From the mid-20th century on, sunny, prosperous Florida epitomized the growing American state. Its decline and fall in 2007 and its current resurgence owe a lot to how the state embraced, and later broke up with,...
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To Infinity and Beyond
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
New Yorks Bizarre Housing Tax
Spying on cheats who only pretend to inhabit one of the Naked City’s 1.1 million rent-regulated apartments is getting to be a big business.
Suburban Decline
Decay in city’s middle-class areas casts doubt on affordability index
A Great, Cheap Place to Live
Regina — identified in a new study as one of the cheapest places in the world to own a home — may be headed for a boom in the near future, should housing prices continue to soar in other Canadian cities, predicts a senior fellow at the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre...
We’re One CHEAP City
For the second year in a row, Winnipeg was ranked among the most affordable places to live in an international study. Regina is considered the most affordable city in Canada, with Winnipeg and Quebec City tied in second place.
Canada Scores First in International Housing Affordability Study
In Demographia’s third annual survey of housing affordability, the City of Regina, Saskatchewan, scored the best in the world. Canada’s other cities covered a wide range, from “affordable” to “severely unaffordable.”
3rd Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
The 3rd Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey expands coverage to 159 major markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Job Growth Keeps Houston Housing Market Strong
Five questions with Houston-based Trendmaker Homes’ President Will Holder about his thoughts on the property market in Houston.
Suburbs a Sin to Smart Growthers
One columnist’s view on the new studies published about the effects of the suburbs and his own experiences.
Houston Missed the Real-Estate Boom of East And West Coasts, but Now It’s Payback Time
This sprawling city missed the real-estate boom that sent home prices soaring on the East and West coasts. Now, with much of the nation's housing market in retreat, it has yet to feel even a tremor. In September, local sales of single-family homes and condominiums...