In post-flood Calgary, both displaced residents and new renters are trying to get into Calgary’s renting market, resulting in a lower vacancy rate. Calgary’s restrictive bylaws further restrict the amount of affordable housing available. If bylaws were modernized, secondary suites could provide a viable option in this tight housing market.
Housing Affordability
Suffocating Bureaucracy & Failed Institutions
The real reason for the collapse of embryonic civil society in Egypt appears to be poorly understood.
Within this excellent article in the UK The Telegraph , by the Editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson “It is capitalism, not democracy, that the Arab world needs most” ( h/t Australian Institute of Public Affairs … Hey… what did I miss? newsletter ) , the real reasons for this failure are explained.
Arson Highlights Need for Debate on Bill 40
The Manitoba government tabled a series of amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act in May that have yet to come up for a vote in the legislature. Among many other things, Bill 40 would make it easier for landlords to evict tenants who are acting unlawfully.
A View On A Room: The rooming house debate pits socialist golf-shirters against free-market hippies
Part of the problem with rooming houses in Regina comes from the way they’re defined. According to the city’s manager of neighbourhood planning, Yves Richard, the definition isn’t broad enough.
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Celebrating Manitoba’s Fisher River First Nation
Indigenous communities in Manitoba face some of the greatest obstacles. Over the years, when the UN Human Development Index was applied to First Nation communities across Canada, Manitoba First Nations often ranked lowest. So, it’s important to highlight some of the...
UK-Canada Nuclear Fusion Project Could Generate Jobs, Unite Climate Alarmists and Skeptics
For a long time, nuclear fusion has been a sci-fi fantasy; the holy grail of energy production that involves the combination of multiple atomic nuclei to generate energy. It’s the same process used by the sun to create energy, and the opposite of nuclear fission,...
Secondary Suites Make Good Sense
Reducing regulations on secondary suites is a smart way to increase affordable housing supply
Telecommuting Trumps Urban Planners
The phenomenon of telecommuters – the tens of thousands of Winnipeggers who work at the end of an internet pipe, a group that is not politically aware or organized, and therefore invisible – is already well advanced.
You Get What You Pay For
The condition of Winnipeg’s rental units has been in decline for some time now. The reason is rent control.
Time to Make Secondary Suites Legal
With vacancy at an all time low, wouldn’t making existing dwellings legally available be a logical solution?
The Politics of Sky-High House Prices
High costs, lack of land, the environment and inflation are making new homeowners a thing of the past. Are the current government regulations helping or exacerbating the problem?
Higher Interest Rates And Lack Of Land Fuel The Flame To Just Go Bananas
It is so easy to blame governments – especially when they are, in fact, to blame.
Winnipeg: Streamline Housing Approvals
Restrictive land-use policies are reducing Winnipeg’s significant advantage in home affordability.
The War Against The Car Will Never Succeed
According to the politicians and the urban planners, public transit is the answer to all our woes. Everyone knows cars are responsible for everything from gridlock to pollution and obesity.
Harry Lehotsky, Inner-City Preacher, Activist and Change Agent
Many social agencies are “poverty pimps,” living high off the hog while their clients remain trapped in dysfunctional neighbourhoods? A front-line perspective from a Winnipeg icon.