James Moore

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3,438 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts Conversation Encore Episode -- Is Affordability An Issue That Governments Can Even Solve? · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

We have all kinds of densification issues.

We have traffic patterns, we have the Fraser River, we have floodplains.

So we have limited physical space relatively in the lower mainland.

And also we have of tons of NIMBYism, right?

Jerry will love this line is uh uh uh a developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods, an environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

And uh

There is a lot of that in British Columbia and there's a lot of that in the Lower Mainland.

And so the housing issues in British Columbia is is also has also for a long time been heavily dependent, leveraged on um foreign owners and speculative buyers.

And so so the housing crisis in British Columbia in the lower mainland is very different than what you have in Toronto and very different than what you would have in another urban centers around the country.

So uh on that and there are there is an issue.

I mean Pierre Poliev did have this right.

For sure, a couple of years ago when he was talking about gatekeepers and zoning laws and and the burdens that are in place with regard to to building housing in places where you need it.

That is very true.

Um and and also I I think that you know the the NDP government, British Columbia, and others have gotten it right when it comes to pushing away foreign buyers.

So there are some market forces

that ran out of control, that have been re rationalized and prices are coming down.

They are coming down in a way that will be accretive to a new generation of home buyers.

So I I think slowly

in a broken way, we are on the housing side getting to a better place.

But it's a it's a slow battleship that's being turned around, right?

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