Mastodawn

Canada’s cities didn’t drift into crisis. We legislated scarcity, shifted costs to municipalities, and called it inevitable. This essay maps the choices — and the reforms that could make the urban promise real again: supply, non‑market housing, zoning reform, and transit that actually moves people.

A critical essay on Canada’s urban crisis:

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-canadian-urban-condition

#Urbanism #CanadaHousing #HousingPolicy #ZoningReform #Transit #Homelessness #NonMarketHousing #CityBuilding

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Pepperberry

Encampments aren’t an anomaly; they’re a policy outcome. When housing is treated as an asset first, shelter second, we get the cities we designed. The agenda for change is clearer than the politics that block it.

Canada’s urban promise is fraying by design — housing, zoning, and a politics that rewards scarcity.

Canada’s cities once functioned as social elevators. Today, they’re stalled between floors—by policy, by design, and by choice.

https://curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-canadian-urban-condition

#CanadaHousing #Urbanism