Answering Your Biggest Questions About Canada’s Housing Crisis

About this episode

The episode addresses listener questions about Canada's housing crisis and related issues.

Why are young Canadians leaving cities? Why are seniors staying in homes that are too big for them? And can Canada lower housing costs without cutting quality of life even further? In this listener Q&A episode of The Missing Middle, Sabrina Maddeaux and Cara Stern answer audience questions on housing affordability, immigration, downsizing, social isolation, wage stagnation, the Greenbelt, and why building more “missing middle” housing has become so difficult in Canada. Topics covered: Why...

People in this episode

Host: Cara Stern

Guest: Sabrina Maddeaux

Topics covered

• housing crisis
• affordability
• immigration
• downsizing
• social isolation
• wage stagnation
• Greenbelt

Keywords

• housing crisis
• Canada
• affordability
• immigration
• downsizing
• social isolation
• wage stagnation
• Greenbelt

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Canada

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