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The market can’t fix the housing crisis

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Dr Brian Doucet is an award-winning planning professor at the University of Waterloo and director of "Thinking Beyond the Market: a film about genuinely affordable housing." www.housingfilm.ca Housing is inarguably one of the biggest challenges facing Canada. Everyone talks about it constantly and there’s no shortage of ideas about how to solve the crisis. Frequently, we hear from politicians and others that the solution is clear: increase supply, unleash the cranes and eliminate rules holding back development. But what if we need to think bigger? Too often we frame housing simply as a question of how much we need and defer to the market to build it. Instead, we need to focus on what kind of housing and for whom. I’ve studied housing for more than 15 years and there’s a surprising truth: Solving the housing crisis isn’t about developing new solutions, but rather having the courage and political will to implement measures we know will make housing more affordable. Speak to housing resea

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