Housing market policies for Canada: Short term measures and system challenges – Policy Scotland

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The University of Glasgow has recently led a major cross-national collaboration, Shaping Futures, that explored emerging issues in housing policy. The project involved the Universities of Glasgow, Toronto and New South Wales, along with non-profits, government agencies and charitable trusts drawn from Australia, Canada and the UK. The partners have undertaken an 18-month long knowledge co-production and exchange that has assessed changing housing systems, challenges in private rental provision, the evolution of non-profits, the governance of housing and the pressures on growing metropolitan housing markets. Although there were significant differences in macroeconomic background and policy circumstances across the three countries there were also important commonalities. Estimated needs for non-profit housing provision were rising sharply, homelessness was rising and in the market sector long periods of price pressure, particularly in growing metropolitan areas, had seen prices and rents

Duncan Maclennan, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Glasgow and Professor of Strategic Urban Management and Finance at the University of St Andrews, Scotland David Graham, President of Atlantic Developments (Halifax, Nova Scotia). 1. Pressured Markets and Policy Measures: Canadian Responses Shaping Futures: Canada in Context The University of Glasgow has recently led a major cross-national collaboration, Shaping Futures, that explored emerging issues in housing policy. The project involved the Universities of Glasgow, Toronto and New South Wales, along with non-profits,…

Housing market policies for Canada: Short term measures and system challenges – Policy Scotland

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