Deny Sullivan 🇨🇦
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I tweet charts. M.A. Economics. Subscribe to my blog @ https://t.co/l3n0PNSW4x
Halifax
Joined September 2012
Plenty of peninsular Halifax could look like this
London’s Low-Traffic Neighborhoods provide a model other cities should emulate.
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Halifax Tokyo Buenos Aires Valencia New York
If I had to choose 5 cities to live in, they would be: - Toronto - Park City - Paris - Tokyo - Rio de Janeiro What are yours?
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Mark of shame
In 2025, 73% of housing starts are with City-led or supported projects. We’re making sure that new homes are still getting built. Across the city, we’re helping to ensure new homes are getting built, and we can bring the cost of housing down for thousands – even as private
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I don’t know how ND fans even look themselves in the mirror.
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Best thing Halifax has going for it in housing, low development charges. $100k+/unit head start on the GTA, and not that much lower rents these days
Wondering why nobody can afford to build rental or launch condos in Toronto? The GTA has the highest development charges by a massive margin. As unit prices went down: 1. Land costs went down 2. Construction costs went down 3. Soft costs went down 4. Development charges went
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New blog on the capped assessment program and how to reform it without scaring grandma
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Safe haven shoebox condos 🔥
Detached homes are the worst-performing housing category in November 2025. 416 Condos are the best-performing product type in the GTA right now. Did not expect that one.
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Much of Canadas housing problem comes from avoiding having everyday homeowners ‘chip in more’
Toronto’s mayor wants luxury home buyers to ‘chip in more’ https://t.co/9volUQAqEy
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The blog
My favorite Tyler question: “What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?”
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Country founded on building two transcontinental railways rediscovers will to build linear infrastructure
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1-bed units downtown for $1600 is equivalent to $1375 pre covid. Not bad?
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New blog! Talking about taxes - how Nova Scotia has leaned on the more growth-damaging taxes, and avoided the least damaging. I also suggest a area to target: high marginal rates on middle income earners, which are an accident of 15 years of bracket creep
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Always impressed at the unwillingness to radically improve commutes in Canadian cities. Choosing congestion is pricey
Who has the worst commute in Canada? By CBC News https://t.co/mwoll6dPnB 21.3 mins
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Disagree with this. Cities struggle to increase affordable housing because they are money-grubbing above all. We put the tax that taxes seniors most in the jurisdiction where seniors dominate, causing extreme austerity mindsets. Everything flows from that
It's always hard for mayors to increase affordable housing, even when there's available land. The political powers of developers get in the way. Here are two examples from Boston and New York, courtesy @rkuttnerwrites: https://t.co/xwxZeSWWBo
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Like maybe with public land and scale you drop that per unit cost, to like $300k/unit? That's $150bn - still a massive use of resources!
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