That’s impossible, I’ve already ordered my full blown recession hats
In a not-demented local media environment we are cheering the creation of 4 large family-friendly apartments in a walkable and high demand neighborhood
The irony is that in Canada the most exclusionary areas of our major cities are liberal bastions, full of well-meaning progressives who would be the first to claim we need to welcome and support others (just not here, and not like this, and not for that price)
Oh shit is this 4 storeys because of the pitched roof? That's amazing actually, let's build more
Rough to see Halifax look more like Toronto and Vancouver than Calgary/Edmonton/Montreal like it did 6 years ago
Homelessness is a housing issue:
-Toronto and Vancouver have the highest rates
-Halifax rockets up as the housing market breaks post COVID
-Calgary declines as oil bust keeps housing market weak
TLDR: Avoiding even a single WCS spread blowout is worth $20-30bn, so the province should just engineer the financial requirements to make it happen. AIMCo can be the vehicle for ~subsidy. Credit to @roryjohnston.bsky.social for the key chart
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Overall matches my findings with @jensvb.bsky.social trying to compare older homeless count results. Tricky to line up across different methods (Calgary was an outlier for us), but great to see the general takeaway replicated. homefreesociology.com/2025/01/16/h...
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted on MountainMath. Evidence suggests a clear correlation between rents and rates of homelessness in the USA. The simplest interpretation is that ho…
