CBC Radio host Gregor Craigie reviews Canada’s cross country, ongoing housing crisis, devoting chapters to not only major cities but smaller communities as well.
Interviews with homeowners, renters and the homeless present varied perspectives, which are then contrasted with the experiences of people in other parts of the world with similar profiles. Helsinki, Singapore, Paris and Berlin are just some of the jurisdictions that have found ways to house their citizens faster and better, in ways that could be implemented here.
Part of the charm of this very readable book is Craigie’s style of writing, and what he is not: he’s not writing from a political party’s perspective, he’s not an academic, and he doesn’t fall victim to the fallacy of single approach solutions. Fixing the housing crisis in Canada will require political, business, and social solutions from a broad cross-section of private and political sectors. But it can be (and elsewhere, has been ) done.
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