Author: Will Dawson
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Housing demand isn’t fake
Why do people assume that demand for expensive apartments is fraudulent? If you follow housing news in Canada at all, you’re surely familiar with two competing ideas for what’s to blame for the housing crisis. The first is what can be called the market thesis, which holds that housing is expensive because the supply of…
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A brief history of UBC’s confusing local government
In November 2024, just over a thousand residents from some (but not all) of the University of British Columbia (UBC)’s neighborhoods of permanent residents headed to the polls in what looked a lot like a municipal election, complete with an all-candidates’ forum, campaigns, and voting stations. However, the body that they elected — the University…