When it comes to the housing market, demand matters as much as supply. Indicating to the market that demand via population growth will be lower for the foreseeable future would lower shelter prices today and is a win.
Capitalism may not be the best moral ideal, but it’s the best workaround given our natural but limited capacity for compassion and evolutionary instincts. Unfortunately, it’s a lesson every generation enamoured of socialism has to learn.
Discarding an established and functional energy-delivery system and replacing it in a few short years with something completely new in order to achieve “net zero” is fraught with risk and enormous expense.
The key to an effective housing strategy is speed. The federal government must avoid setting up new approvals processes and micromanaging the system.
Barstool Sports is one of the most successful entertainment platforms in the internet age. It’s popularity, particularly among young men, signals a growing shift in how many are engaging with politics and culture.
Housing shortages impact many of the most pressing problems in the Western world, including declining fertility, endemic chronic illness, brutal inequality, climate catastrophe, sluggish productivity, and slow growth.
The Selezione Gordon Ramsay Intenso Rosso 2020 has undoubtedly made a lot of people angry in both Abruzzo and Tuscany. So what? It’s actually pretty good, especially for a wine that retails for $17 even.
There are many self-described “social democrats” who believe Canada should be more like Sweden. But there’s one problem—Canadians are highly unlikely to accept Sweden’s taxes.
The Liberals have fallen down and out on housing because they’ve maintained a narrow and out-of-sync focus on the issue. Their near-exclusive focus has been on “affordable housing,” which although important, is a minority of the housing market affecting a minority of Canadians.
Hopefully, as the COVID hangover wears off, things will continue to normalize. Travel and leisure have become rather expensive. But the hottest concert tickets in town will probably always be expensive. There’s just no way around that.
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