Two things that seem mutually exclusive are true. We are in a housing supply crisis, and virtually nothing is getting built. @MikepMoffatt & @SabrinaMaddeaux get into it on this week's episode of the Missing Middle pod.

This will be interesting to watch unfold

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but it feels like society is fraying a little bit. On this week's episode of the Missing Middle, @SabrinaMaddeaux, @MikepMoffatt, and I debate how return-to-office mandates may (or may not) help with that.

Dahlia season, happy Friday!

Shrinkflation isn't just happening with boxes of cereal and packages of cheese, but in housing as well. @MikePMoffatt & @SabrinaMaddeaux discuss it on this week's episode of the Missing Middle podcast

This is the best advice for the Democrats that I have read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

baseball + tennis = 💃🏼

Today's episode of the Missing Middle pod, we explain what a think tank is and what we do. (This episode is dedicated to all the moms who don't know what their kids do for a living.) @MikepMoffatt. @SabrinaMaddeaux

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“That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power — and the wealth of our top earners has so exploded — that America’s most important market today is its affluent.”

Traffic in toronto is brutal. I’ve been driving for an hour and haven’t yet gotten out of the city. When the Ontario public sector is in office 5 days a week plus the big banks, it’s going to get 10x worse and Doug Ford is going to have to wear it.

My daughter is going off to university and this basically how I feel about it so far. youtube.com/shorts/t... via @YouTube

If 96% of zoning applications are approved, why are municipalities requiring developers to go through an arduous and expensive approvals process which encourages acrimony? Great question posed by @jesse_helmer in today's episode of the Missing Middle pod

I did that here, going back to 1968: www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/southern-o... (Scroll down to the bottom of the article - it's a long one).

Rising housing costs are driving artists, musicians, designers, and other innovators out of big cities, and the loss isn't just about vibes. @MikepMoffatt & @Sabrinamaddeaux break it down on this week's Missing Middle

New MMI episode! Sabrina and I channel our inner-Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida) and discuss how high rents/home prices, and the cost of living are impacting the creative class and the arts in our big cities. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watc...

New MMI piece! Housing policy should not abandon the option of homeownership as a goal, and Gen X and Boomers must understand the corrosive impact of telling Millennials and Gen Z that it's okay for them to be denied the options that we took for granted.

Autocorrect is so bad now that it regularly turns a sentence that was 90% correct into total nonsense. This is a concrete example of why monopolies are bad.

Are you getting rich by building or creating something, or are you getting wealthy by sitting on an asset for 40 years doing nothing? One of the big questions @SabrinaMaddeaux & @MikePMoffatt discuss on today's episode. PS The answer matters a lot to the health of the economy

Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had theonion.com/man-who...

File under birding opportunities phys.org/news/2025-0...

What is a MURB, I hear you ask, and why was their success the reason for their downfall? To find out, check out this week's episode of the Missing Middle podcast with @MikepMoffatt and @SabrinaMaddeaux

Two of my favourite men, who I don’t know irl, in one place. So good. youtu.be/IPsu4pMpIjk...

Straight out of the How to Be An Autocrat playbook. Chapter 1 www.nytimes.com/2025...

New MMI episode. REITs are often cited as being a primary cause of Canada's rental housing crisis. Today we look at how much truth there are to those anti-REIT claims and provide a provide a primer on how REITs work. www.youtube.com/watc...

"But also, and not to put too fine a point on it, corporate executives at big traditional media brands often aren’t very bright." www.natesilver.net/p...

The first ever co-pro between me and @AlexBeheshti on turning to the private sector for data that the public sector should be giving us. #Nerdpowersunite 💪🏼🤓 open.substack.com/pu...

Win-win “That would save buyers tens of thousands of dollars in interest costs without depriving municipalities of one cent in infrastructure funding.” www.thestar.com/opin...

“Since these owners are pretty much always faced on the other side by often storied journalists saying they’re destroying something of great value, you might think that I assume those folks know the right strategy. They don’t.” talkingpointsmemo.co...

What a sentence! “ The minimum bar for the next Democratic candidate for president should be the ability to react, live on camera, in a plausibly normal fashion, to the existence of adult baby-diaper lovers.” www.theatlantic.com/...

In this week's episode of The Missing Middle, @SabrinaMaddeaux and @MikePMoffatt break down the massive wave of federal public service job cuts and how they’re slamming young Canadians the hardest.

Completely bananas. 🍌😢 www.texasmonthly.com...

The GTA housing market crash has already resulted in the loss of 12000 construction/manufacturing jobs, which could easily turn into 41000 if these trends continue. All this is happening when the unemployment rate is already at 9.7%! @SabrinaMaddeaux & @MikepMoffatt disucss.

This American Life is the og podcast/radio show. This is an amazing episode: www.nytimes.com/2025...

Happy Wimbledon men’s semi-final day to all who celebrate!

I am, for the third time trying to pay my speed camera violation ticket online (for going 41km in a 30 zone 🤷🏼‍♀️) and all I get is a spinning ball. No wonder people keep vandalizing the cameras. I mean, come on!

Data Nerd Alert 🚨 This episode is dedicated to all the urban planners out there. This week, @beheshtialex joins the MM pod explaining how Canada is organized into thousands of planning zones, most of which cannot be compared to one another.

America is so embarrassingly corrupt and gross right now. It’s very sad.

"In this life, you’re paid what you can get, not what you deserve. If the latter were the case, we’d all know the names of Canada’s best moms, rather than Canada’s best soccer players." 🫡 www.theglobeandmail....

Toronto is only allowing sixplexes in nine of 25 wards, but TBH, it can barely build the multiplexes it's already zoned for. Canada has lost the ability to build because we see the role of government as saying "no, no, no" and not "yes, LFG!"

If you’re looking for a light long -read this really spoke to me: slate.com/culture/20...

There’s something freeing about finally understanding that your mother is completely bonkers and that you’re very much like her. Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

Eliminating the GST on new home construction doesn't juice demand on the entire housing market; it lowers the construction cost and gets new homes built now. @MikepMoffatt and @SabrinaMaddeaux talk about it on this week's Missing Middle podcast

New MMI episode on GST New Housing rebates. We examine how rebate reform could save homebuyers over $100,000 on the cost of a new home, and show how 35 years of inflation have made it nearly impossible to qualify for the current rebate. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watc...

I genuinely adore these two Econ uncles🥰

Hard to describe the terror that this 24 yo research intern was calmly containing. New origin story for me + Meredith

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Representative Sarah McBride reckons with the trans rights movement’s shortcomings, and how to win hearts and minds through a politics of grace. open.spotify.com/episode/1Ryl... youtu.be/KlbNFsAGFRc?...

I produced that Brockville Agenda live episode in 2010 which therefore means I discovered Vass everyone!

I made a catastrophic error pruning the hydrangea