If we are looking for pragmatic solutions to make our housing more affordable in Saskatchewan or Canada, we should take note of the latest changes in public policy in New Zealand.
Housing Affordability
There’s More to New Neighbourhoods Than Houses
When setting in place a research agenda that seeks to examine both the costs and benefits of growth and development, it’s important to keep property tax discussions and the related operating budget issues separate from capital budget matters and development costs.
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline: Suburbs have more poor people mainly because they have more people, write Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox.
In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based press corps and cultural elite cheerfully sneer at each new sign of decline, most recently a study released Monday by the Brookings Institution—which has become something of a Vatican for anti-suburban theology—trumpeting the news that there are now 1 million more poor people in America’s suburbs than in its cities.
Speaker Argues Against Compact Cities
Participants at a housing innovation and infrastructure forum heard a defence of detached housing and against compact cities. Wendell Cox, an international public policy consultant specializing in urban policy, transport and demographics, told the audience at the forum cities that have urban containment policies push up housing prices and make them less affordable.
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Carbon Border Taxes: A Counterproductive Idea Which Will Lead to Penalized Customers
Carbon taxes at the borders are becoming a popular idea among some countries and world regions. For example, the European Commission, the EU executive institution, is proposing environmental tariffs “on imports from countries with less stringent climate-protection...
Reverse Orwell to Give Our Leaders New Titles
In his novel 1984, George Orwell envisioned a future that is arguably unfolding before our eyes where government authority was supreme and truth and freedom were not to be found. Perhaps he should have named his novel 2021 because our times seem more like his novel...
Celebrities Love New York Rent Control
Regulations meant to protect people with lower incomes has become a joke when those that can afford to pay the higher rent do not.
Smart Growth and the Ideal City
Economist Randal O’Toole explores the parallels between the visions of East German central planners and modern urban planners.
Sunset Rent Control
It is time for the government to recognize the distortions and damage rent control is doing to the economic and social well-being of the citizens and send it off into the sunset.
Wendell Cox, Urban Policy Expert
Urban policy expert and critic, Wendell Cox, talks about “smart growth” polices, and whether they have any value for Winnipeg.
Frontier Media Coverage: “Let it Sprawl”
URBAN sprawl is pretty much a dirty word at city hall these days, but a contrarian policy expert tried yesterday to persuade Winnipeggers that growing suburbs are a good thing.
Wendell Cox PowerPoint on Smart Growth
Urban sprawl critic Wendell Cox’s powerpoint presentation on Smart Growth to Lunch on Frontier audience in Winnipeg, February 24th, 2004
“Smart Growth”
The city of Portland, Oregon, took the lead in implementing “smart growth” policies to contain urban sprawl. The results, to say the least, were underwhelming, and wiser heads are trying to correct the mistake.
What Would Happen If We Lifted Rent Controls?
Repealing rent controls brings a substantial increase in housing investments according to Manhattan Institute study.
Will Toronto suffer a decline like Winnipeg’s?
A prominent national columnist fingers rent control as a driver of Winnipeg’s deteriorating downtown.