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The Missing Middle Podcast — 194 episodes

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1

Is the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Hurting Young People?

2

Why Return-to-Office Didn't Bring Canadians Back to Big Cities

3

From EI to Daycare: Navigating Parental Leave in Canada

4

What We Love About Canada | Canada Day Special 2026

5

Why Canada Stopped Building Homes for Families

6

FIFA Gets the Profits. Canadians Get the Bill.

7

"Wait Until 2060": Canada's Housing Plan for Young People

8

This Court Ruling Could Change Property Ownership in Canada: Steve Saretsky

9

Will Baby Boomers Leave Behind a Housing Glut?

10

Toronto’s Housing Crisis Explained with Ron Butler | Live Event

11

Why Strong Communities Don’t Happen by Accident

12

Answering Your Biggest Questions About Canada’s Housing Crisis

13

The Story Behind Canada’s Collapsing Fertility Rate

14

Why Canada Will NEVER Tax Your Home Profits

15

The Hidden Algorithm Deciding What You Pay

16

Why Mark Carney Wants Canada’s Own “Norway Fund”

17

Development Charges Are Finally Being Cut. What Happens Next?

18

Canada vs. U.S.: Why Young Workers Are Choosing to Leave

19

The Hidden Wealth Transfer from Young to Old - Explained

20

Did Canada Ignore Immigration Fraud on Purpose?

21

The War Over Upzoning Just Escalated

22

Carney’s Canada After 1 Year: What’s Working (and What’s Not)

23

Did Housing Affordability Kill Climate Action?

24

Rents Are Dropping… So Why Expand Rent Control?

25

What’s Making Young Canadians So Unhappy? The Data Is Brutal

26

Greed Vs. Fear: The Economic Policy Killing Canadian Innovation

27

The "Zombie Myth" About Why Birth Rates Are Dropping

28

The Sneaky Tax Hike Nobody Voted For

29

How to Save $130,000 on Your New Home in Ontario

30

The Inflation Number You Hear vs. The One You Feel

31

Paige Saunders: Why the US and Canada are Trapped (and how New Zealand escaped)

32

Second-Time Buyers Are Screwed (And Ignored)

33

The Meritocracy Myth: Is Canada Still the Land of Opportunity?

34

The Statistical Illusion Inside Canada’s Housing Data

35

Why You Can’t Find a Rental for Your Family (It’s Not Just the Price)

36

Out of Nowhere: How Canada Fell Behind Alabama

37

The Giant Planning Error That Destroyed Housing Supply

38

If We’re Not in a Recession… Why Does It Feel Like One?

39

Is “Buying Canadian” Actually a Luxury for the Rich?

40

You’re “Middle Class” on Paper. So Why Do You Feel Broke?

41

The Disappearing "Third Place": Why Making Friends Is Getting Harder

42

The Hidden Job Market Crisis No One Is Talking About

43

Why Canadian Transit is Failing Families (and How to Fix It)

44

Why Risky Bets Are Rational in a Housing Crisis

45

AI is Killing Entry-Level Jobs: The 13% Drop Nobody is Talking About

46

Canada’s Starter Home Is Dead

47

Canada’s Demographic Time Bomb: What Boom, Bust & Echo Got Right

48

These Changes Can Help Make Homes Affordable for Young People

49

You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy: Is That Our Future?

50

The Hidden Tax on City Living: How Crime and Disorder Undermine Density

51

How Birth Year Shapes Your Economic Future

52

Did the Greenbelt Break Ontario’s Housing System?

53

Ask Me Anything: Housing, Transit, and Our Podcast’s Future

54

Fixing Canada’s Health Data Rules Without Killing Innovation

55

Grading Provinces on Housing: Who Earned an A and Who Deserves Detention?

56

Are We Ignoring a Generation of Struggling Young Men?

57

How Housing Prices Shape Families

58

Are Boomers Bankrupting the Future?

59

Canada Is Finally Regulating Stablecoins – Here’s Why It Matters

60

Why Rent Control Might Be Hurting the People It’s Meant to Help

61

How Canada Fell Behind the World on Housing Affordability

62

Do You Have a CRA Horror Story?

63

The Rental Paradox: Why Lower Prices Aren't Enough

64

Nightmare on Craven Road: When Local Politics Derail Citywide Housing Goals

65

Eastbound and Outpriced: The Great GTA Family Migration

66

From Kraft Dinner to Condos: The Great Shrinkage

67

Ontario’s Housing Sales Collapse: It’s Not Just Toronto Condos

68

Who Really Wins with Return-to-Office Mandates?

69

Condo Crashes, Shrinkflation, & The Death of Homeownership?

70

The Secret Life of Think Tanks: Funding, Influence & Careers

71

Infill Housing Battles: What 15 Years of Data Reveal

72

The High Cost of Losing Your Creative Class

73

Can Tax Reform Help Young Canadians Afford Homes?

74

MURBs & The Housing Plot Twist No One Saw Coming

75

REITs, Rent & Rage: Canada’s Housing Tug-of-War

76

Young Workers and the Public Service Purge

77

The $6.6 Billion Housing Disaster Politicians Won’t Talk About

78

Broken Zoning: Why We Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis Without a Map

79

How Cities Keep Screwing up Multiplex Housing

80

Canada’s GST Rebate is Based On 1991 Home Prices-WTF!?!

81

Politicians vs. Millennials: The Battle for Housing Affordability

82

From 40 to 100 million: How will immigration impact Canadian wages?

83

Ron Butler: Condo Crash Meets Housing Crisis

84

Can Factory-Built Homes Solve the Housing Crisis?

85

The Housing Trilemma: Why You Can't Afford a Home

86

Where DID All the Jobs Go? The Mystery of Rising Unemployment.

87

The Humble Genius of Uytae Lee: The Creator of About Here

88

Baby Bust: Where Have All the 3-Bedroom Homes Gone?

89

Can Any Party Actually Fix Housing? - Election 2025

90

Ed Elson: Is Gen Z Doomed?

91

David Coletto: Gas Prices, Trump and Angry Young Men - Inside Canada’s Wild 2025 Election

92

How Community Consultation is Ruining Democracy

93

Are Young People Giving Up on Canada?

94

Will Reduced Immigration Solve the Housing Crisis?

95

David Coletto: The Precarity Mindset and the 2025 Election

96

Unpacking the Growing Wage Gap Between American and Canadian Workers

97

Reece Martin has a Vision for Canada’s High Speed Rail Future

98

Ontario Election Predictions

99

Examining Liberal Leadership Housing Promises

100

Why Ontario Cities Are Sitting on 10 Billion in Cash

101

Are We in a Relationship Recession?

102

Ford Fails Ontario on Housing

103

Alex Usher: How Canada is Paying for Ontario’s Higher Education Debacle

104

How Trump's Tariffs Will Hurt the Middle-class

105

Reviewing Trudeau’s Record on the Middle Class

106

How Corporate Consolidation is Ruining Everything: Discussion with Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar

107

You Asked, We Answered: New Year’s Mail Bag

108

You Asked, We Answered: Holiday Mail Bag

109

How to Argue About Housing at Your Holiday Dinner

110

Boomer Wealth Won't Save Millennials

111

We Can't Afford a GST Holiday

112

Ontario Sucks at Building Homes

113

Real Ways Politicians Could Solve the Housing Crisis

114

Mass Timber Can Get Homes Built Faster

115

The Housing Crisis Helped Trump Win

116

Tearing Out Bike Lanes is a Bad Idea

117

Canada Has a Soft Corruption Problem - Eric Lombardi of More Neighbours Toronto

118

North America Will Never Be the Netherlands - Interview with Not Just Bikes

119

Let’s Not Give More Handouts to Wealthy Seniors

120

NIMBYs will Fight Even the Gentlest of Density

121

Why You Can’t Build Cheap Homes Anymore

122

Why are North American Suburbs So Bad? - with Not Just Bikes

123

Will Canadian Workers be Hurt by the AI Revolution?

124

It’s Now Easier to Pay More for Housing!

125

Why is Falling Rent Framed as Bad News?

126

You Can't Grow a Country Just On Temporary Immigration

127

Why Don't Vacant Home Taxes Work?

128

The Challenges of Multiplex Construction: Ryan Valente at the Missing Middle Summit 2024

129

Can Millennials Afford to Have Kids?

130

Upzoning Toronto's Major Streets: Naama Blonder at the Missing Middle Summit 2024

131

The High-Wage TFW Program Has Some Problems Too

132

Building Multiplexes Under Toronto's Newest Bylaws: Blair Scorgie at the Missing Middle Summit 2024

133

How the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Suppresses Wages

134

Financing Missing Middle Apartment Buildings: Max Goyzman at the Missing Middle Summit 2024

135

Why are Young Families Leaving Big Cities?

136

Why Loosening Elevator Policy Means More Homes: Stephen Smith @MarketUrbanism at the Missing Middle Summit 2024

137

Should Cities Require Density, or Encourage It?

138

What It Takes to Scale Up Urban Infill: Shea Gallagher at the Missing Middle Summer 2024

139

Why Mike Moffatt Doesn’t Love Land Value Taxes

140

Designing and Building Infill Homes: Evan Saskin at the Missing Middle Summit 2024

141

Is the System Rigged Against Millennials and Gen Z?

142

Why We Need Missing Middle Homes: Eric Lombardi at the Missing Middle Summit 2024

143

Canada’s Addiction to Temporary Foreign Workers

144

Why Single Stairways are Heaven for Homebuilding - Interview with Conrad Speckert

145

Should Politicians Encourage a Return to the Office?

146

Should Landlords Get Tax Breaks to Sell to their Tenants?

147

How Elevator Rules Cost Us Homes

148

Are Landlords Greedier Than They Used to Be?

149

Could Trudeau Crash the Housing Market?

150

Does Owning a House Secure Your Retirement?

151

Could More Supply Crash the Housing Market?

152

If Condo Sales are Down, Why Aren’t Prices?

153

Is Raising the Capital Gains Tax a Good Idea?

154

Could a Renter's Bill of Rights Actually Help?

155

How Automatic Tax Filing Could Make Your Life Easier

156

Grading the Federal Budget: Housing Policy and Capital Gains Tax

157

Alex Beheshti: What Happened to Ontario's Housing Ambition?

158

Why Trudeau is Bringing Back 30-Year Mortgages

159

Everyone Wants Rentals, but No One Wants Landlords

160

Alex Bozikovic: Heritage Rules and the Housing Crisis

161

Ford, Fourplexes and the Free Market

162

Marc Miller: How The Immigration Minister Plans To Cut Immigration

163

David Coletto: Why Millennials Broke Up with Trudeau

164

How Parking Minimums Hinder Home Construction

165

How to Build 5.8 Million Homes by 2030

166

How Central Banks Decide If Your Mortgage Goes Up

167

Inflation, Interest Rates, and the Role of the Bank of Canada

168

Reece Martin: Canadians Pay Way Too Much to Build Transit

169

How Does the Bank of Canada Affect Housing?

170

How Should Economists Measure Happiness?

171

Justice Queen: From Accidental Landlord to Housing Advocate

172

Is GDP Per Capita is a "Garbage Metric"?

173

Do Canada's Immigration Targets Make Sense?

174

Soaring Rent and Low Vacancy in Canada's Latest Market Report

175

How Colleges Broke Canadian Immigration

176

Sabrina Maddeaux: A Millennial Running to be a Conservative

177

The Three Types of Middle Class

178

Is a 10.5% Property Tax Increase Reasonable?

179

John Rapley: Is Canada's Economy in Decline?

180

Trudeau Talks Capping International Student Visas

181

How Pre-Approved Home Designs Could Help Affordability

182

Why You Should Care About (and Understand) Bond Yields

183

How the BC Housing Minister is Going Big on Housing Supply

184

Trudeau Liberals' Fall Economic Statement Earns a C- Grade

185

Green Leader Mike Schreiner on Fixing Housing in Ontario

186

Is Ontario Setting Up Cities to Fail Their Housing Targets?

187

How Realistic is this Housing Plan Anyway?

188

Are Development Charges Fair to Millennials and Gen Z?

189

Ontario Towns and Cities Debate Zoning for Multiplexes

190

How the Left and Right Approach Economics These Days

191

How Universities and Colleges Make the Housing Crisis Worse

192

Doug Ford Puts Land Back in the Greenbelt

193

We Need More Competition

194

Things Really are Different Now!