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The Missing Middle Podcast — 178 episodes
Development Charges Are Finally Being Cut. What Happens Next?
Canada vs. U.S.: Why Young Workers Are Choosing to Leave
The Hidden Wealth Transfer from Young to Old - Explained
Did Canada Ignore Immigration Fraud on Purpose?
The War Over Upzoning Just Escalated
Carney’s Canada After 1 Year: What’s Working (and What’s Not)
Did Housing Affordability Kill Climate Action?
Rents Are Dropping… So Why Expand Rent Control?
What’s Making Young Canadians So Unhappy? The Data Is Brutal
Greed Vs. Fear: The Economic Policy Killing Canadian Innovation
The "Zombie Myth" About Why Birth Rates Are Dropping
The Sneaky Tax Hike Nobody Voted For
How to Save $130,000 on Your New Home in Ontario
The Inflation Number You Hear vs. The One You Feel
Paige Saunders: Why the US and Canada are Trapped (and how New Zealand escaped)
Second-Time Buyers Are Screwed (And Ignored)
The Meritocracy Myth: Is Canada Still the Land of Opportunity?
The Statistical Illusion Inside Canada’s Housing Data
Why You Can’t Find a Rental for Your Family (It’s Not Just the Price)
Out of Nowhere: How Canada Fell Behind Alabama
The Giant Planning Error That Destroyed Housing Supply
If We’re Not in a Recession… Why Does It Feel Like One?
Is “Buying Canadian” Actually a Luxury for the Rich?
You’re “Middle Class” on Paper. So Why Do You Feel Broke?
The Disappearing "Third Place": Why Making Friends Is Getting Harder
The Hidden Job Market Crisis No One Is Talking About
Why Canadian Transit is Failing Families (and How to Fix It)
Why Risky Bets Are Rational in a Housing Crisis
AI is Killing Entry-Level Jobs: The 13% Drop Nobody is Talking About
Canada’s Starter Home Is Dead
Canada’s Demographic Time Bomb: What Boom, Bust & Echo Got Right
These Changes Can Help Make Homes Affordable for Young People
You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy: Is That Our Future?
The Hidden Tax on City Living: How Crime and Disorder Undermine Density
How Birth Year Shapes Your Economic Future
Did the Greenbelt Break Ontario’s Housing System?
Ask Me Anything: Housing, Transit, and Our Podcast’s Future
Fixing Canada’s Health Data Rules Without Killing Innovation
Grading Provinces on Housing: Who Earned an A and Who Deserves Detention?
Are We Ignoring a Generation of Struggling Young Men?
How Housing Prices Shape Families
Are Boomers Bankrupting the Future?
Canada Is Finally Regulating Stablecoins – Here’s Why It Matters
Why Rent Control Might Be Hurting the People It’s Meant to Help
How Canada Fell Behind the World on Housing Affordability
Do You Have a CRA Horror Story?
The Rental Paradox: Why Lower Prices Aren't Enough
Nightmare on Craven Road: When Local Politics Derail Citywide Housing Goals
Eastbound and Outpriced: The Great GTA Family Migration
From Kraft Dinner to Condos: The Great Shrinkage
Ontario’s Housing Sales Collapse: It’s Not Just Toronto Condos
Who Really Wins with Return-to-Office Mandates?
Condo Crashes, Shrinkflation, & The Death of Homeownership?
The Secret Life of Think Tanks: Funding, Influence & Careers
Infill Housing Battles: What 15 Years of Data Reveal
The High Cost of Losing Your Creative Class
Can Tax Reform Help Young Canadians Afford Homes?
MURBs & The Housing Plot Twist No One Saw Coming
REITs, Rent & Rage: Canada’s Housing Tug-of-War
Young Workers and the Public Service Purge
The $6.6 Billion Housing Disaster Politicians Won’t Talk About
Broken Zoning: Why We Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis Without a Map
How Cities Keep Screwing up Multiplex Housing
Canada’s GST Rebate is Based On 1991 Home Prices-WTF!?!
Politicians vs. Millennials: The Battle for Housing Affordability
From 40 to 100 million: How will immigration impact Canadian wages?
Ron Butler: Condo Crash Meets Housing Crisis
Can Factory-Built Homes Solve the Housing Crisis?
The Housing Trilemma: Why You Can't Afford a Home
Where DID All the Jobs Go? The Mystery of Rising Unemployment.
The Humble Genius of Uytae Lee: The Creator of About Here
Baby Bust: Where Have All the 3-Bedroom Homes Gone?
Can Any Party Actually Fix Housing? - Election 2025
Ed Elson: Is Gen Z Doomed?
David Coletto: Gas Prices, Trump and Angry Young Men - Inside Canada’s Wild 2025 Election
How Community Consultation is Ruining Democracy
Are Young People Giving Up on Canada?
Will Reduced Immigration Solve the Housing Crisis?
David Coletto: The Precarity Mindset and the 2025 Election
Unpacking the Growing Wage Gap Between American and Canadian Workers
Reece Martin has a Vision for Canada’s High Speed Rail Future
Ontario Election Predictions
Examining Liberal Leadership Housing Promises
Why Ontario Cities Are Sitting on 10 Billion in Cash
Are We in a Relationship Recession?
Ford Fails Ontario on Housing
Alex Usher: How Canada is Paying for Ontario’s Higher Education Debacle
How Trump's Tariffs Will Hurt the Middle-class
Reviewing Trudeau’s Record on the Middle Class
How Corporate Consolidation is Ruining Everything: Discussion with Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar
You Asked, We Answered: New Year’s Mail Bag
You Asked, We Answered: Holiday Mail Bag
How to Argue About Housing at Your Holiday Dinner
Boomer Wealth Won't Save Millennials
We Can't Afford a GST Holiday
Ontario Sucks at Building Homes
Real Ways Politicians Could Solve the Housing Crisis
Mass Timber Can Get Homes Built Faster
The Housing Crisis Helped Trump Win
Tearing Out Bike Lanes is a Bad Idea
Canada Has a Soft Corruption Problem - Eric Lombardi of More Neighbours Toronto
North America Will Never Be the Netherlands - Interview with Not Just Bikes
Let’s Not Give More Handouts to Wealthy Seniors
NIMBYs will Fight Even the Gentlest of Density
Why You Can’t Build Cheap Homes Anymore
Why are North American Suburbs So Bad? - with Not Just Bikes
Will Canadian Workers be Hurt by the AI Revolution?
It’s Now Easier to Pay More for Housing!
Why is Falling Rent Framed as Bad News?
You Can't Grow a Country Just On Temporary Immigration
Why Don't Vacant Home Taxes Work?
The Challenges of Multiplex Construction: Ryan Valente at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Can Millennials Afford to Have Kids?
Upzoning Toronto's Major Streets: Naama Blonder at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
The High-Wage TFW Program Has Some Problems Too
Building Multiplexes Under Toronto's Newest Bylaws: Blair Scorgie at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
How the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Suppresses Wages
Financing Missing Middle Apartment Buildings: Max Goyzman at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Why are Young Families Leaving Big Cities?
Why Loosening Elevator Policy Means More Homes: Stephen Smith @MarketUrbanism at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Should Cities Require Density, or Encourage It?
What It Takes to Scale Up Urban Infill: Shea Gallagher at the Missing Middle Summer 2024
Why Mike Moffatt Doesn’t Love Land Value Taxes
Designing and Building Infill Homes: Evan Saskin at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Is the System Rigged Against Millennials and Gen Z?
Why We Need Missing Middle Homes: Eric Lombardi at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Canada’s Addiction to Temporary Foreign Workers
Why Single Stairways are Heaven for Homebuilding - Interview with Conrad Speckert
Should Politicians Encourage a Return to the Office?
Should Landlords Get Tax Breaks to Sell to their Tenants?
How Elevator Rules Cost Us Homes
Are Landlords Greedier Than They Used to Be?
Could Trudeau Crash the Housing Market?
Does Owning a House Secure Your Retirement?
Could More Supply Crash the Housing Market?
If Condo Sales are Down, Why Aren’t Prices?
Is Raising the Capital Gains Tax a Good Idea?
Could a Renter's Bill of Rights Actually Help?
How Automatic Tax Filing Could Make Your Life Easier
Grading the Federal Budget: Housing Policy and Capital Gains Tax
Alex Beheshti: What Happened to Ontario's Housing Ambition?
Why Trudeau is Bringing Back 30-Year Mortgages
Everyone Wants Rentals, but No One Wants Landlords
Alex Bozikovic: Heritage Rules and the Housing Crisis
Ford, Fourplexes and the Free Market
Marc Miller: How The Immigration Minister Plans To Cut Immigration
David Coletto: Why Millennials Broke Up with Trudeau
How Parking Minimums Hinder Home Construction
How to Build 5.8 Million Homes by 2030
How Central Banks Decide If Your Mortgage Goes Up
Inflation, Interest Rates, and the Role of the Bank of Canada
Reece Martin: Canadians Pay Way Too Much to Build Transit
How Does the Bank of Canada Affect Housing?
How Should Economists Measure Happiness?
Justice Queen: From Accidental Landlord to Housing Advocate
Is GDP Per Capita is a "Garbage Metric"?
Do Canada's Immigration Targets Make Sense?
Soaring Rent and Low Vacancy in Canada's Latest Market Report
How Colleges Broke Canadian Immigration
Sabrina Maddeaux: A Millennial Running to be a Conservative
The Three Types of Middle Class
Is a 10.5% Property Tax Increase Reasonable?
John Rapley: Is Canada's Economy in Decline?
Trudeau Talks Capping International Student Visas
How Pre-Approved Home Designs Could Help Affordability
Why You Should Care About (and Understand) Bond Yields
How the BC Housing Minister is Going Big on Housing Supply
Trudeau Liberals' Fall Economic Statement Earns a C- Grade
Green Leader Mike Schreiner on Fixing Housing in Ontario
Is Ontario Setting Up Cities to Fail Their Housing Targets?
How Realistic is this Housing Plan Anyway?
Are Development Charges Fair to Millennials and Gen Z?
Ontario Towns and Cities Debate Zoning for Multiplexes
How the Left and Right Approach Economics These Days
How Universities and Colleges Make the Housing Crisis Worse
Doug Ford Puts Land Back in the Greenbelt
We Need More Competition
Things Really are Different Now!