Globe & Mail: Building more homes alone won’t fix affordability. Here’s what else is needed

Paul Kershaw

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February 27, 2026

If the goal is lasting affordability, Canada's National Housing Strategy 2.0 must deploy the full set of policy levers that shape prices and rents – not simply pursue higher construction...

Globe & Mail, Housing

Globe & Mail: Canada must renew its national housing strategy

Paul Kershaw

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January 30, 2026

It is essential for the Carney government to renew and substantially improve Canada’s National Housing Strategy. Renewal offers a chance to do better. The original version was a step forward,...

Housing, Globe & Mail

The Bank of Canada Can Use Its Mandate Review to Shape Home Prices and Affordability

Kareem Kudus

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December 03, 2025

During a housing affordability crisis, all available policy tools should be aimed a lowering costs for Canadians. Along with other financial and housing leaders, we're asking the Bank of Canada...

Housing

Did Budget 2025 deliver 'historic' housing investment?

Andrea Long

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November 12, 2025

Budget 2025 promises historic action on housing. But buried in the fine print is a surprise: Presently, Ottawa plans to shrink capital investments for housing in the coming years.

Budgets, Canada, Housing

Globe & Mail: Time to fix the inflation indicator hobbling a generation of homebuyers

Paul Kershaw

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November 08, 2025

Canada’s housing plan must expand beyond building more homes to fix a flaw that has long fuelled unaffordability: Statistics Canada’s underestimation of housing inflation in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Globe & Mail, Housing

Housing Subsidies for Multi-Millionaires - and Some Billionaires

Generation Squeeze

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October 06, 2025

This article was researched and written by guest author Phil Webb. His views in this article are aligned with, but independent from, Generation Squeeze. Phil is Vancouver born and raised,...Read More

Housing

A National Strategy on Housing for Young Canadians

Andrea Long

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September 30, 2025

MP Braedon Clark is asking Ottawa to develop a National Strategy on Housing for Young Canadians. It's a first step to confronting the generational tensions in our housing system.

Housing

How Housing Affects Choice - A feedswap with Aborsh

Generation Squeeze

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August 19, 2025

This week's episode is a a feed swap with Aborsh – A podcast about abortion in Canada by playwright and podcaster Rachel Cairns. What do abortion and housing have in...Read More

Podcast, Housing, Family

Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Generation Squeeze

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July 23, 2025

Home ownership among young Canadians (under age 35) has recently surged to 44%, the highest level in five decades! 18% of them are mortgage-free. In this episode of the Hard Truths...Read More

Podcast, Housing

Do housing prices need to fall? It's the one question that all politicians dodge.

Generation Squeeze

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July 07, 2025

Canadian politicians are sidestepping the most important – and politically dangerous – question in our housing debate: Should home prices rise, stall or fall? Until we answer it, we can’t...Read More

Housing, Podcast

Compensating Millennials and Gen Z for Canada’s bad housing bargain

Generation Squeeze

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June 23, 2025

For decades, Canada's politicians have been protecting the wealth gains of primarily older homeowners at the cost of affordable housing for the generations who follow. Younger Canadians are stuck with...Read More

Housing, Podcast

Globe & Mail: Why an increase in mortgage-free young people is a worrisome sign

Paul Kershaw

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June 12, 2025

Home ownership among young Canadians (under age 35) has recently surged to 44%, the highest level in five decades! 18% of them are mortgage-free. This indicates Canada may be drifting...

Globe & Mail, Housing

Carney’s housing ambition doesn’t include a goal for home prices

Generation Squeeze

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June 12, 2025

Ottawa recently released what it describes as the “most ambitious” housing plan in over 75 years. In many ways, it delivers. But for all its ambition on building homes, the...

Housing, Canada

Globe & Mail: The one question that all politicians dodge: Do housing prices need to fall?

Paul Kershaw

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June 02, 2025

Canadian politicians are sidestepping the most important – and politically dangerous – question in our housing debate: Should home prices rise, stall or fall? Until we answer it, we can’t...

Globe & Mail, Housing

BC Election Bonus: Housing with Thom Armstrong

Generation Squeeze

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October 15, 2024

As election day approaches, housing affordability and access are top of mind for many British Columbians. The BC NDP, Green, and Conservative parties acknowledge the severity of the crisis, but...Read More

Housing, Elections, British Columbia, Podcast

Globe & Mail: Don’t be duped. The housing market isn’t weak when prices stall.

Paul Kershaw

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August 23, 2024

When too many Canadians can't afford homes as owners or renters, we should be describing the housing market as strong when prices don’t rise, and weak when they do.

Globe & Mail, Housing

Globe & Mail: Our kids think we’re rigging the system against them

Paul Kershaw

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July 18, 2024

Ongoing over-extraction of shared environmental resources, wealth from the housing system, and young people’s tax dollars gives a majority of Millennials and Gen Z good reason to believe that previous...

Globe & Mail, Housing, Retirement

Globe & Mail: Younger Canadians deserve compensation for enduring higher home prices

Paul Kershaw

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June 15, 2024

Correcting the age-imbalance in government budgets is the least Canada can do to compensate younger folks for sacrificing their financial security to protect the housing wealth of home owners who've...

Globe & Mail, Housing

What’s behind Liberal promises on fairness for every generation?

Andrea Long

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April 05, 2024

The federal government is already demonstrating that ‘fairness for every generation’ isn’t just a convenient slogan. Our takeaways on how much recent announcements will restore housing affordability and support young...

Budgets, Family, Housing

Canada's home ownership tax shelter

Generation Squeeze

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April 24, 2023

Our deep dive into a $10-billion policy that fuels housing unaffordability.

Housing

Change is in the air

Kareem Kudus

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April 05, 2023

Watching the natural world transform around us is a welcome reminder that change is possible, especially during precarious times. This spring has brought with it a wave of interest in...

Budgets, Housing

Housing Policy Solutions Framework

Generation Squeeze

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January 04, 2023

There's no single path to fixing Canada's dysfunctional housing system. Our Housing Policy Solutions Framework is a map to reach our goal of making housing affordable for all Canadians.

Housing

The Globe & Mail: The Home Ownership Tax Shelter is unfair to Prairies, Quebec and Atlantic Canada

Paul Kershaw

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January 02, 2023

A five-decades-old federal tax shelter gives an unfair boost to homeowners in hot markets while shafting residents of the Prairies and Atlantic Canada.

Globe & Mail, Housing

Straddling the Gap 2022: Celebrating Stalling Prices for Canadian Homes

Generation Squeeze

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November 23, 2022

Gen Squeeze’s latest housing affordability analysis of the gap between home prices and earnings confirms that our primary goal should be that home prices stall for many years ahead –...

Housing

Poll: Majority of Canadians support a price on housing inequity

Generation Squeeze

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November 14, 2022

Only 10% of Canadians who own million-dollar homes would pay levy

Housing, Opinion Polling

The Globe & Mail: Statscan failed young Canadians by underestimating the effect of housing inflation

Paul Kershaw

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November 01, 2022

Amid all the talk of inflation, it’s easy to forget that a generation of young Canadians are shut out of home ownership in part because Statistics Canada failed to sound...

Housing, Globe & Mail

The Globe & Mail: Young Canadians go to school longer for jobs that pay less, and then face soaring home prices

Paul Kershaw

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September 30, 2022

It is a cliché now to suggest that young people today drink too many lattes and eat too much avocado toast, so can’t afford their major costs of living. As...

Globe & Mail, Housing

Straddling the Gap 2022: Ontario housing affordability falls off a cliff

Generation Squeeze

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May 01, 2022

The Gap has become a chasm, stratospheric housing prices leave earnings far behind

Housing, Ontario

The Cheap Credit System

Generation Squeeze

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January 26, 2022

You might have heard us say that there’s no silver bullet to fix housing affordability - only silver buckshot. Housing supply is one piece of the puzzle, protections for renters...Read More

Housing

A Price on Housing Inequity

Generation Squeeze

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January 05, 2022

Just like governments have introduced a price on pollution to lower our emissions and tackle climate change, this report recommends putting a modest price on housing inequity to apply downward...Read More

Housing

Breaking Canada’s addiction to high and rising home prices: a price on housing inequity

Paul Kershaw

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January 05, 2022

When it comes to housing in Canada, the status-quo has created inequality and complacency. Inequality, because rising housing prices lead to wealth windfalls for some while eroding affordability for others,...Read More

Housing

Housing wealth and generational inequity

Generation Squeeze

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January 04, 2022

Generation Squeeze received funding from the National Housing Strategy's Solutions Labs Program, via the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)*, to take action on one of three pillars in our...Read More

Housing

Housing wealth and generational inequity

Generation Squeeze

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January 04, 2022

Our Solutions Lab examines how everyday Canadians are entangled in a web of public policies that motivate them to count on rising home prices to gain wealth – even though...

Housing

WIN: younger Canadians recognized as vulnerable in the National Housing Strategy

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Lyndsey Easton

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December 01, 2017

We achieved an important victory this week by getting young adults added to the list of vulnerable groups in Canada's new National Housing Strategy.

Campaign Wins, Housing