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

The Canadian Urban Condition: From Promise to Policy Failure — and Back. A critical essay on Canada’s urban crisis — housing, homelessness, zoning, transit, fiscal federalism. Not fate: policy.

Canada’s cities didn’t fail by accident. For thirty years we made policy choices that produced scarcity—and then tried to manage the optics.

For decades, Canada treated its cities like ATMs and battlegrounds — without giving them the tools to build. The result is a housing crisis we can see from every park encampment to every impossible lease renewal.

This essay lays out what a serious city‑building agenda would require: real supply, rebuilt non‑market housing, zoning reform near transit, and fiscal tools that match responsibilities. Would value your perspective from the ground.

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

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urbanism, housing policy, Canada, homelessness, zoning, transit, political economy, non-market housing, fiscal federalism, land value tax