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Housing and Infrastructure

By Social Sciences Communications April 14, 2020

The COVID crisis created urgent needs for fast policy insights, such as rethinking care for the homeless, the prevention of evictions and rent gouging and minimising the effects of reduced incomes on maintaining mortgage payments and home-ownership. In the recovery phase, issues will include making better economic cases for housing investment programmes and coping with supply constraints…

Housing – New Realpolitik Needs a New Real Economics

Australia, Canada, Housing market, Metropolitan, Professor Duncan Maclennan, Shaping Futures, UK, Urban developmentBy Social Sciences Communications March 28, 2018

The pressured housing markets of Sydney and Melbourne pose major challenges, from problems for aspiring homebuyers and lower-income populations to lesser-noticed impacts on urban productivity.

Housing market policies for Canada: Short term measures and system challenges

Canada, David Graham, Housing economics, Housing market, Professor Duncan Maclennan, Shaping FuturesBy Social Sciences Communications October 9, 2017

This paper examines recent Canadian policy shifts to cope with, and remove, house price pressures in major metropolitan areas, Vancouver and Toronto.