My latest for Canadian Dimension; good things can happen, they could even happen here!
Laurence Braun-Woodbury
Housing costs are crushing Canadians, yet our cities remain trapped in market-first thinking. Zohran Mamdani’s new housing plan in New York takes a different approach: build public housing, strengthen tenant power, and confront real estate speculation head-on.
It's time Canadian cities caught up.
New York’s democratic socialist mayor is putting public housing, tenant power, and decommodification at the centre of housing policy, and offering a model for Canadian cities struggling with affordabi...