In right this moment’s The Large Story podcast, there’s no silver bullet for fixing the Canadian housing market, and addressing the difficulty would require a complete slough of quick and long-term methods to alleviate the present crunch, and accommodate future inhabitants progress. It does appear as if most governments in any respect ranges are waking up (albeit, slowly) to the truth that actual motion is required to deal with our housing woes, however we’re in determined want of concepts.
Gregor Craigie is the host of CBC’s On The Island and creator of Our Crumbling Basis: How We Resolve the Housing Disaster. “Thirty years in the past we had about 60 per cent of our inhabitants, however now our total provide of public housing on this nation is just barely bigger than it was after we had not rather more than half the inhabitants. So, we now have not stored tempo anyplace close to it,” stated Craigie.
So how are different international locations coping? And what can Canada be taught from them?
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