: The claim that Canada does not face a housing shortage should be put to bed.
Canada’s housing-stock-to-population ratio is in the bottom 40 per cent of countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. France, for example, has approximately 38 per cent more units of housing per thousand people than Canada. Contributor John Rapley argues that there is not a Canadian housing shortage because the level of housing stock relative to population has not changed much over the years. But this should only mean that a bad undersupply has remained bad.
I find the anti-construction NIMBYs are wrong. Canada’s notoriously overheated demand for housing has an obvious solution, and it is to build more houses.Before and after: The old story about an ounce of prevention being equivalent to a pound of cure seems appropriate when considering weight-loss drugs, and the rapid increase of the disease known as obesity.
Preventive measures such as seat belts and smoking bans have been far more effective at preventing death from motor vehicle accidents and lung cancers than improved medicines and surgical procedures, yet obesity prevention doesn’t seem to inspire the same impetus compared to new medical treatments for after the disease has progressed.
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