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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:58 Millennial Moron Literal European Castle Compilation
4:39 Canada's Current Housing Crisis
16:36 Root Causes: The Financialization of Housing
20:53 Canada's Unhealthy Real Estate Investing Fetish
25:50 Financialization was a policy choice
29:43 Millennial Moron explains why the CPI is a Boomer
37:04 Root Causes: Barriers to Building
37:30 Approvals
39:00 NIMBYism
40:52 Red Tape
42:30 Developer Fees
43:31 The Growth Ponzi Scheme
47:33 Part Three: Solutions
48:53 Ending the housing crisis & addressing the climate crisis
52:29 Where do we go from here?
56:48 Housing is a human right
59:11 Outro and credits

🔥Resources 🔥
• Blueprint for More and Better Housing from the Task Force on Housing and Climate: https://housingandclimate.ca/wp-conte...
• Latest federal budget: https://budget.canada.ca/2024/home-ac...
• Alberta Central on restoring affordability: https://albertacentral.com/intelligen...
• HOOPP survey https://hoopp.com/home/pension-advoca...
• Report from Efficiency Canada: https://www.efficiencycanada.org/buil...
• Housing Report from OECD: https://www.oecd.org/mcm/OECD%20Housi...
• Suburban Population in Canada https://fcpp.org/2022/02/16/canada-su...
• That NIMBY nonsense from Newmarket: https://www.yorkregion.com/news/compl...
• Approval Delays from CMHC: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/blog/2023...
• This explainer from The Globe on mortgage backed securities: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busin...
• 1980's CMHC housing report: https://publications.gc.ca/collection...
• Housing Mix report: https://schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/wp...
• Federal Housing Advocate explainer on the financialization of housing: https://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/defa...
• StatsCan on parents and children and housing: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/4...
• RBC on Housing: https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/tou...
• Worst Band in the World: https://www.laweekly.com/top-20-worst...

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