Archive - Missing Middle Initiative

Our 2026 Housing Policy Wish List: Ten Ways to Fix the Crisis

Ten reforms that would make it possible to build homes middle-class families can actually afford

Dec 22 • Mike Moffatt

Metro Van Strikes Again: When One Government Cuts and Another Collects

The hidden math behind Vancouver’s disappearing housing relief

Dec 19 • Mike Moffatt

Fixing Canada’s Health Data Rules Without Killing Innovation

And what we can learn from Asia

Dec 17 • Cara Stern, Djeima Ramos, Sabrina Maddeaux, and Mike Moffatt

Planning Based on Yesterday Is How You Get Today’s Housing Crisis

How Ontario’s population projections are locking in the housing shortage

Dec 16 • Mike Moffatt

Grading Provinces on Housing: Who Earned an A and Who Deserves Detention?

Hint: Onterrible lives up to its reputation

Dec 12 • Djeima Ramos, Mike Moffatt, and Cara Stern

2025 Provincial HOMES Report Card

In the first annual HOMES (Housing Outcomes and Management Effectiveness Score) Report Card, New Brunswick and PEI get an A-, and Ontario gets a D.

Dec 11 • Mike Moffatt and Alex Beheshti

Are We Ignoring a Generation of Struggling Young Men?

For the first time, men past retirement age are earning more than men aged 25–34

Dec 10 • Sabrina Maddeaux, Mike Moffatt, and Meredith Martin

What Happened to the Young Middle-Class Man?

Canadian men under 45 earn less than their 1970s counterparts, even as seniors hit historic highs, and homeownership trends make the gap even wider.

Dec 9 • Mike Moffatt

Health Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard

Outdated rules are holding Canada back.

Dec 8 • Missing Middle Initiative

How Home Prices Shape Families

A new University of Toronto study proves that housing affordability has directly contributed to declining fertility rates in a massive way

Dec 3 • Cara Stern, Mike Moffatt, and Djeima Ramos

A Human Right to Housing Requires Evidence-Based Policy, Not Wishful Thinking

You can’t fix a rights crisis with wishful thinking, and Mike’s had enough of pretending otherwise.

Dec 2 • Mike Moffatt

The Big Collapse: New Condo Sales Down 89%, Ground-Oriented Down 65%

The Q3 report from MMI and RESCON

Dec 1 • Jesse Helmer

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