Rough to see Halifax look more like Toronto and Vancouver than Calgary/Edmonton/Montreal like it did 6 years ago

Narrative buster for NS

The irony is that in Canada the most exclusionary areas of our major cities are liberal bastions, full of well-meaning progressives who would be the first to claim we need to welcome and support others (just not here, and not like this, and not for that price)

That’s impossible, I’ve already ordered my full blown recession hats

Overall matches my findings with @jensvb.bsky.social trying to compare older homeless count results. Tricky to line up across different methods (Calgary was an outlier for us), but great to see the general takeaway replicated. homefreesociology.com/2025/01/16/h...

Homelessness is a housing issue: -Toronto and Vancouver have the highest rates -Halifax rockets up as the housing market breaks post COVID -Calgary declines as oil bust keeps housing market weak

In a not-demented local media environment we are cheering the creation of 4 large family-friendly apartments in a walkable and high demand neighborhood

Oh shit is this 4 storeys because of the pitched roof? That's amazing actually, let's build more

This really missed a lot of interesting parts of potential privatization. Too bad

This 4.6 acre site could fit an NHL sized arena

In an alternate Halifax where the city isn’t governed by austerity freaks, a plot of land this large and central is being bought and reimagined for the benefit of the public

Hey. Hi. Hello. In the latest HFX By Bike, I go over Halifax's transportation system, past, present, and future, and try to explain why traffic happens and what the city can (actually) do to solve it. youtu.be/8oTRxu4dPiw

Good morning.

The point of the Ocean service is to make cool maps in Via materials

Sometimes the front page of Deny's Substack looks really cool, check it out

Always curious about how real these budget numbers are, what they exclude, because thats $170k per unit. Which sounds reasonable

We’ve arrived at the happy talk stage of transportation policy

LVT! Shout-out @mitchformer.bsky.social

Story has been updated! Thanks to the CH team for correcting

Did you notice the quick shift from "steward of her family's legacy" (a bungalow built in 1929) to "worried about a development". I'm worried about all sorts of shit people do! I don't get the government to stop them, especially when its something like build housing in a shortage

Me about HSR

New blog on the Via's Ocean service, now with station data from @denisagar.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/v...

Moving is an essential part of life and a housing system that doesn’t allow it is stifling.

Another blog about the Ocean tomorrow

The CCPA has completely lost the plot on housing. They think that reducing taxes on building housing will make the it cheaper for large investors to buy them and this constitutes a bailout of the investors. I don't even know where to start. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"Where's the business case" only applies to infrastructure I'm not in favour of

Via rail numbers out, here's the future HSR corridor numbers, no growth in 2025

The entire survey is "show me on the doll where the new townhome five blocks over hurt you" I think Halifax is about to walk back its HAF zoning changes.

In the meantime, let’s keep the coal plants running 🌱

Looking at Edmontons continued success in ramping up missing middle and think about how Halifax could’ve done more

NEW BLOG POST Edmonton's housing momentum didn't stop at the end of 2025. Q1 2026 data is in and Edmonton is on track for another strong year of homebuilding in the places people want to live. The rowhome revolution continues. 🧵 #yeg #yegcc #yimby jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/q1-building-permits/

Similar idea to what I wrote about last summer, Via's Ocean service is bad, and doesn't even try to serve the Maritimes actual population centers deny.substack.com/p/scrap-the-...

Reminder that this “glut” of small units was approved under a planning process that took ~2.5 years to complete. Almost like that process is designed to allay the concerns of people who already own homes and has zero to do with the new homes themselves. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

It's so annoying when people act like gas station operators or oil companies pocket gas tax holidays. They don't!

C’était pas une analyse plutôt qu’une expression d’idéologie. Le publique aurait bénéfice plus d’avoir quelqu’un avec plus d’expérience sur les autoroutes de péages que « mes vacances en Europe » youtu.be/CJf6Qm2v5Zk?...

Oh my god Calgary's mayor 🥲 calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Municipal politicians are routinely extremely destructive and bad faith with no consequences, because their voters bear none of the consequences

New blog on Nova Scotia's resource push, jobs, and construction open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/d...

If you wanted one article to understand our housing crisis, this is it

I got a cheeseburger despite having cheeseburger-making hands

Don’t people love taxing big business?

Can we go back to the gatekeepers Pierre?

Hell yea

Tolls ease congestion