It’s hard to link directly to clips of radio interviews, and the links seem to die/change often, so I’m going to start uploading some of my earlier clips to try to have ’em in one place. The topic of this one was the housing shortage generally. Listening to it, I…
I was on the Mike Smyth show (Robin Gill was filling in for him) this morning to talk about my recent op-ed, the appointment of Christine Boyle as the new housing minister, and provincial intervention in housing policy generally. I’m always happy when I get a chance to be on…
My latest op-ed for the DailyHive was posted on August 20, 2025. You can read it here.
Interventions by senior levels of government is a major interest of mine–I wrote a Master of Laws thesis on the subject, after all! The basic problem is that local governments have all the wrong incentives when it comes to housing: local voters are, pretty much by definition, people who have successfully found local housing; meanwhile, people who have been priced out of a given city don’t get to vote on the policies that have excluded them.
I’m doing an Internet!
Why start up a personal blog in 2025? The experience of Twitter going downhill drove home to me the importance of having an Internet presence that was under my control. I’m not planning on posting a lot here, but it seemed like a good idea to have a place where people can find my contact info, links to op-eds, and things like that.
