How are other countries dealing with the housing crisis? | The Big Story

If you listened to last week's Fixing Canada series (which you should check out if you haven't!), you may have noticed one key issue was conspicuously absent: housing.

A big reason for that is we recently talked at length about potential housing solutions with journalist, Gregor Craigie. And there was little we could say that wasn't already discussed during that conversation. So today we're revisiting that episode for your listening pleasure.

Enjoy!

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Canada is not the only country in the world experiencing skyrocketing costs and a shortage of available housing options. Across the world nations are coming up with creative solutions to deal with their own housing crises.

There’s no silver bullet for fixing the Canadian housing market, and addressing the issue will require a whole slough of short and long-term strategies to alleviate the current crunch, and accommodate future population growth. It does seem as though most governments at all levels are waking up (albeit, slowly) to the fact that real action is needed to address our housing woes, but we’re in desperate need of ideas.

So how are other countries coping? And what can Canada learn from them?

GUEST: Gregor Craigie, host of CBC's On The Island and author of Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve the Housing Crisis

[AndrewDhaliwal-iuws]

What housing crisis? They send their unemployed here to compete with Canadian for a few jobs available.

[johnnyboyvan]

Define "affordable ". 🤔 There is no housing crisis...some people rent and others own...end of story. If you have to live with others so be it!! 😮

[ChiefThanos]

Housing crisis and insane landlord's. I had my landlord plumbing break, flooding my bathroom with stinky toilet water. Does nothing about it. And now wants me out rather than dealing with the cost of the break.