Rough to see Halifax look more like Toronto and Vancouver than Calgary/Edmonton/Montreal like it did 6 years ago
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)
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
Oh shit is this 4 storeys because of the pitched roof? That's amazing actually, let's build more
open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/m...
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
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
Narrative buster for NS
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…
