Taxation

In 2018, Canada began taking the gloves off to deal with speculators who are buying and selling housing as casino chips, rather than homes. With some of the highest...

In the face of a report from a Canada-B.C. expert panel on housing affordability, here are some clues why grassroots democracy has difficulty addressing the province's, the nation's and...

Vancouver, B.C., is pretty consistently in the top two of the World's most expensive places to live. The reasons for its high housing costs are many. One significant problem...

Infrastructure? Two Internets? This post is premised on the idea that the events of the current pandemic have decisively demonstrated the internet as basic infrastructure for housing, as defined in...

There are some who believe that a useful distinction can be made between housing "speculation" and housing "investment."See at Huffington Post:Are You A Property Investor Or Speculator? A Quick...

In a time of growing housing crises, what possesses a state legislature to use its housing trust fund as a reserve to tackle other urgent matters, not once but...

This isn't a question of what President Trump would like to do, more the issue of what any President at this moment of time is actually able to do. Democratic...

There's a long list of cities world-wide looking for ways of reducing overheated housing markets. Vancouver, rated by some measures as the second most expensive city to live in...

New businesses often require new business buildings. New business buildings become populated with new business workers. New business workers create a demand for new housing. The logic that tracks from new business...

Vancouver, British Columbia has reported qualified success in taxing empty housing. Try: City Of Vancouver Successfully Puts Idle Homes To Work A recent study in the United Kingdom examines the...

How many New York City activists does it take to unscrew a multi-billion dollar commercial lightbulb? Not as many as one might expect, certainly not a majority of people...

Vancouver, B.C. is struggling with a world class affordable housing crisis which some locals believe is the worst, anywhere, in any country. In order to put the brakes on land...

As North America's housing crisis deepens, there is a growing gap between land and housing costs on one hand, and the amount that a growing number of potential homebuyers...

Seattle, with the third largest homeless population in the country, can be excused for generating money for affordable housing construction by levying a tax on big business. Amazon, one...

On one hand, we have a world-wide casino that uses the basic need for shelter for gambling chips — housing. The result in America?  According to an admittedly self-interested...

Further to an article recently published here, Can Private Enterprise Ever Support Affordable Housing? Amazon Action Demonstrates Otherwise, the City of Seattle has now watered down its affordable housing...

Central Florida, once an inexpensive to place to live, has seen a dramatic drop in housing affordability. Fortunately in 1992, a bipartisan bill was passed in the Florida Legislature:...

With housing speculation a sacred right in western democracies, only the total collapse of the land and housing market can ensure the future return of affordable housing. That event,...

It's abundantly clear that a national speculative housing markets are pushing housing prices beyond affordability in many countries. There is little real reason for any hope that housing prices...

America's affordable housing crisis rapidly worsens. One of the key government supports for affordable housing since 1986 has been the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). It is estimated that...

A pillar of North American democracy (from a conservative viewpoint at least) is the right to speculate on housing. It has supposedly enriched homeowners of all stripes since World...

Hold onto your hats, ladies  and gentlemen, this one's an absolute stunner! Freddie Mac, the quasi-government financial agency which helped to lurch America into the 2008 Housing meltdown then...

U.S. affordable housing advocates have been nervously awaiting cuts to federal funding for affordable housing, thanks to several measures introduced in the new Tax Reform Bill passed in 2017. However,...

The recent great tax giveaway by President Trump and the Republican Party has provided long term delight for the wealthy. An insubstantial windfall will  blow very gently in the...