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Brian Crombie discusses the housing crisis in Canada with Steve Lafleur, Senior Policy Analyst with the Fraser Institute. We talk about how municipal governments have failed to approve enough density, how Provinces need to plan transit along with development, how the time to approval just increases costs and makes housing more unaffordable, how government regulation makes it impossible to actually build the types of communities people love to live in and we worry about how we are going to house all the growth that is coming to the GTA and other major cities in Canada.
Steve Lafleur is Senior Policy Analyst at the Fraser Institute. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.A. from Laurentian University where he studied Political Science and Economics. He was previously a Senior Policy Analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, and is a Contributing Editor to New Geography. His past work has focused primarily on housing, transportation, local government and inter-governmental fiscal relations. His current focus is on economic competitiveness of jurisdictions in the Prairie provinces. His writing has appeared in every major national and regional Canadian newspaper and his work has been cited by many sources including the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Reason Foundation.
Brian Crombie discusses the housing crisis in Canada with Steve Lafleur, Senior Policy Analyst with the Fraser Institute. We talk about how municipal governments have failed to approve enough density, how Provinces need to plan transit along with development, how the time to approval just increases costs and makes housing more unaffordable, how government regulation makes it impossible to actually build the types of communities people love to live in and we worry about how we are going to house all the growth that is coming to the GTA and other major cities in Canada. Steve Lafleur is Senior Policy Analyst at the Fraser Institute. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.A. from Laurentian University where he studied Political Science and Economics. He was previously a Senior Policy Analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, and is a Contributing Editor to New Geography. His past work has focused primarily on housing, transportation, local government and inter-governmental fiscal relations. His current focus is on economic competitiveness of jurisdictions in the Prairie provinces. His writing has appeared in every major national and regional Canadian newspaper and his work has been cited by many sources including the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Reason Foundation. read more read less

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