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

That would deal with the affordability crisis in terms of a cash crunch in the next five years, which would get you into a political electoral cycle and people would see their mortgage payment go.

Go from twenty five hundred dollars a month to twenty two hundred dollars a month.

But of course the long tail on that mortgage would cast out over, you know, another generation of family members and your cost of borrowing would eclipse probably two X, three X the value of the home.

But your affordability issue in the next, you know, thirty-six months, as you think about who you're gonna vote for, that will get uh and depressed down.

But you have to hope.

hope that the public's economic literacy will catch up to the politicians and hold them accountable for such a dumb idea.

I also think um

Yeah, uh but first of all I think it's not true.

And I and I don't think young people should think that.

I think that they can own a home.

But I do think that their time horizon expectations and the idea of, you know, your first home is going to be your forever home is is something that has uh not been true for a very long time.

And people have to know that you have to climb a ladder.

I climbed a ladder from a condo to a smaller house to my current house.

Um I almost bought another house, but then I decided that it for lifestyle reasons I I didn't

want to do that and I didn't need it and I've got a brilliant place that I live in now and I'm very happy with it.

So you have to make decisions.

I also think that if you're a parent and you have children, you're very anxious about it in their upward mobility, it it kind of doesn't make a lot of sense for your children to come out of university, have a ton of a ton of debt, be struggling to organize themselves professionally, struggle to live a good

qu uh quality of life and then to become upwardly mobile and start a family, say before the age of thirty or thirty five when the health health risks associated with it are in sort of their prime zone.

Uh so you you can't have a child and all that.

It it doesn't make a lot of sense then, frankly, to live to age eighty or eighty five and then to pass on your kids an inheritance of a couple of hundred thousand dollars when they're now forty or fifty years old.

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