We believe that building enough homes to restore housing affordability across Canada will likely take another decade. To balance the housing market, we estimate 4.2mn new dwellings need to be built between 2024-2035, including 2.9mn to satisfy growth in households and 1.3mn to make up for pas...
To add to the disorder, 2024 had a drastic rise in the volume of temporary residents — 130,000 — trying to overstay their work and study visas by applying for refugee status. That’s up from 10,000 less than a decade ago. The asylum claims process can take several years. Article co...
November 14, 2024 Celebrating OCN’s fifth anniversary as Ontario’s first daily digital construction newspaper May 1, 2024 Architects Celebrating Black Excellence in Canada’s Construction Industry: A Legacy of Resilience, Progress, and Leadership ...
As of 2024, Canada has been polarized politically, plus the major old paradigm parties have drifted into minority values policies, without respect to Canada's Majority's beliefs and values. In my considered opinion, Canada needs a unique new noble & accountable party with a "100 Year Vision"...
His government struggled to handle economic challenges such as inflation and a worsening housing crisis. Public frustration grew as Canadians, emerging from pandemic lockdowns, faced rising food prices, housing shortages, a surge in homelessness, and an unpopular carbon tax that sparked nationwide pro...
literature on housing justice, a quantitative survey of 188 participants, and 30 qualitative interviews, the findings reveal that international students and other newcomers are at different stages of their housing careers, have different needs and goals, and are experiencing the affordability crisis ...
Federal budget 2024: The full highlights The Trudeau government’s latest plan includes tax hikes for the wealthy, $53-billion in new spending over five years and measures to tackle the housing crisis (The Globe and Mail) Canada’s budget 2024: More spending, higher capital gains taxes, bigg...
Notes prepared for a Session in Honour of Robin Boadway II: Emerging Issues in Tax and Transfer Policy, held at the Canadian Economics Association meetings in Toronto, June 1,2024. The fundamental principles of optimal tax analysis have not changed greatly over the past 50 years. The constraint...
baby drill ethos. It’s definitely going to be a sense of undoing a lot of what Justin Trudeau stood for in that liberal ethos of trying to promote social justice and progressive values. There’s a lot more about business, a lot more about making housing affordable. But there hasn’t be...
But there’s also a range of other factors influencing real estate businesses and prospects in the year ahead. Challenges around housing affordability persist, highlighting an important trend that’s shaping the market and deepening the push for further policy change and a focus on innovation and ...