The Missing Middle with Mike Moffatt and Sabrina Maddeaux

By Cara Stern, Mike Moffatt, and Meredith Martin

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Welcome to the Missing Middle, a podcast about why the middle class in Canada is disappearing. We hope to help you understand why life is becoming unaffordable for so many in this country, and what can be done to reverse course.

Episode Date
Broken Zoning: Why We Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis Without a Map
Jul 09, 2025
How Cities Keep Screwing up Multiplex Housing
Jul 02, 2025
Canada’s GST Rebate is Based On 1991 Home Prices-WTF!?!
Jun 25, 2025
Politicians vs. Millennials: The Battle for Housing Affordability
Jun 18, 2025
From 40 to 100 million: How will immigration impact Canadian wages?
Jun 11, 2025
Ron Butler: Condo Crash Meets Housing Crisis
Jun 04, 2025
Can Factory-Built Homes Solve the Housing Crisis?
May 28, 2025
The Housing Trilemma: Why You Can't Afford a Home
May 21, 2025
Where DID All the Jobs Go? The Mystery of Rising Unemployment.
May 14, 2025
The Humble Genius of Uytae Lee: The Creator of About Here
May 07, 2025
Baby Bust: Where Have All the 3-Bedroom Homes Gone?
Apr 30, 2025
Can Any Party Actually Fix Housing? - Election 2025
Apr 25, 2025
Ed Elson: Is Gen Z Doomed?
Apr 23, 2025
David Coletto: Gas Prices, Trump and Angry Young Men - Inside Canada’s Wild 2025 Election
Apr 16, 2025
How Community Consultation is Ruining Democracy
Apr 09, 2025
Are Young People Giving Up on Canada?
Apr 02, 2025
Will Reduced Immigration Solve the Housing Crisis?
Mar 26, 2025
David Coletto: The Precarity Mindset and the 2025 Election
Mar 19, 2025
Unpacking the Growing Wage Gap Between American and Canadian Workers
Mar 12, 2025
Reece Martin has a Vision for Canada’s High Speed Rail Future
Mar 05, 2025
Ontario Election Predictions
Feb 28, 2025
Examining Liberal Leadership Housing Promises
Feb 26, 2025
Why Ontario Cities Are Sitting on 10 Billion in Cash
Feb 19, 2025
Are We in a Relationship Recession?
Feb 12, 2025
Ford Fails Ontario on Housing
Feb 05, 2025
Alex Usher: How Canada is Paying for Ontario’s Higher Education Debacle
Jan 29, 2025
How Trump's Tariffs Will Hurt the Middle-class
Jan 22, 2025
Reviewing Trudeau’s Record on the Middle Class
Jan 15, 2025
How Corporate Consolidation is Ruining Everything: Discussion with Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar
Jan 08, 2025
You Asked, We Answered: New Year’s Mail Bag
Jan 01, 2025
You Asked, We Answered: Holiday Mail Bag
Dec 25, 2024
How to Argue About Housing at Your Holiday Dinner
Dec 18, 2024
Boomer Wealth Won't Save Millennials
Dec 11, 2024
We Can't Afford a GST Holiday
Dec 04, 2024
Ontario Sucks at Building Homes
Nov 27, 2024
Real Ways Politicians Could Solve the Housing Crisis
Nov 20, 2024
Mass Timber Can Get Homes Built Faster
Nov 13, 2024
The Housing Crisis Helped Trump Win
Nov 08, 2024
Tearing Out Bike Lanes is a Bad Idea
Nov 06, 2024
Canada Has a Soft Corruption Problem - Eric Lombardi of More Neighbours Toronto
Oct 30, 2024
North America Will Never Be the Netherlands - Interview with Not Just Bikes
Oct 23, 2024
Let’s Not Give More Handouts to Wealthy Seniors
Oct 16, 2024
NIMBYs will Fight Even the Gentlest of Density
Oct 09, 2024
Why You Can’t Build Cheap Homes Anymore
Oct 02, 2024
Why are North American Suburbs So Bad? - with Not Just Bikes
Sep 25, 2024
Will Canadian Workers be Hurt by the AI Revolution?
Sep 20, 2024
It’s Now Easier to Pay More for Housing!
Sep 18, 2024
Why is Falling Rent Framed as Bad News?
Sep 11, 2024
You Can't Grow a Country Just On Temporary Immigration
Sep 06, 2024
Why Don't Vacant Home Taxes Work?
Sep 04, 2024
The Challenges of Multiplex Construction: Ryan Valente at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Aug 30, 2024
Can Millennials Afford to Have Kids?
Aug 28, 2024
Upzoning Toronto's Major Streets: Naama Blonder at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Aug 23, 2024
The High-Wage TFW Program Has Some Problems Too
Aug 21, 2024
Building Multiplexes Under Toronto's Newest Bylaws: Blair Scorgie at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Aug 16, 2024
How the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Suppresses Wages
Aug 14, 2024
Financing Missing Middle Apartment Buildings: Max Goyzman at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Aug 09, 2024
Why are Young Families Leaving Big Cities?
Aug 07, 2024
Why Loosening Elevator Policy Means More Homes: Stephen Smith @MarketUrbanism at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Aug 02, 2024
Should Cities Require Density, or Encourage It?
Jul 31, 2024
What It Takes to Scale Up Urban Infill: Shea Gallagher at the Missing Middle Summer 2024
Jul 26, 2024
Why Mike Moffatt Doesn’t Love Land Value Taxes
Jul 24, 2024
Designing and Building Infill Homes: Evan Saskin at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Jul 19, 2024
Is the System Rigged Against Millennials and Gen Z?
Jul 17, 2024
Why We Need Missing Middle Homes: Eric Lombardi at the Missing Middle Summit 2024
Jul 12, 2024
Canada’s Addiction to Temporary Foreign Workers
Jul 10, 2024
Why Single Stairways are Heaven for Homebuilding - Interview with Conrad Speckert
Jul 03, 2024
Should Politicians Encourage a Return to the Office?
Jun 26, 2024
Should Landlords Get Tax Breaks to Sell to their Tenants?
Jun 20, 2024
How Elevator Rules Cost Us Homes
Jun 19, 2024
Are Landlords Greedier Than They Used to Be?
Jun 12, 2024
Could Trudeau Crash the Housing Market?
Jun 05, 2024
Does Owning a House Secure Your Retirement?
May 29, 2024
Could More Supply Crash the Housing Market?
May 22, 2024
If Condo Sales are Down, Why Aren’t Prices?
May 15, 2024
Is Raising the Capital Gains Tax a Good Idea?
May 08, 2024
Could a Renter's Bill of Rights Actually Help?
May 01, 2024
How Automatic Tax Filing Could Make Your Life Easier
Apr 24, 2024
Grading the Federal Budget: Housing Policy and Capital Gains Tax
Apr 19, 2024
Alex Beheshti: What Happened to Ontario's Housing Ambition?
Apr 17, 2024
Why Trudeau is Bringing Back 30-Year Mortgages
Apr 12, 2024
Everyone Wants Rentals, but No One Wants Landlords
Apr 10, 2024
Alex Bozikovic: Heritage Rules and the Housing Crisis
Apr 03, 2024
Ford, Fourplexes and the Free Market
Mar 29, 2024
Marc Miller: How The Immigration Minister Plans To Cut Immigration
Mar 27, 2024
David Coletto: Why Millennials Broke Up with Trudeau
Mar 20, 2024
How Parking Minimums Hinder Home Construction
Mar 13, 2024
How to Build 5.8 Million Homes by 2030
Mar 08, 2024
How Central Banks Decide If Your Mortgage Goes Up
Mar 06, 2024
Inflation, Interest Rates, and the Role of the Bank of Canada
Mar 01, 2024
Reece Martin: Canadians Pay Way Too Much to Build Transit
Feb 28, 2024
How Does the Bank of Canada Affect Housing?
Feb 23, 2024
How Should Economists Measure Happiness?
Feb 21, 2024
Justice Queen: From Accidental Landlord to Housing Advocate
Feb 16, 2024
Is GDP Per Capita is a "Garbage Metric"?
Feb 14, 2024
Do Canada's Immigration Targets Make Sense?
Feb 09, 2024
Soaring Rent and Low Vacancy in Canada's Latest Market Report
Feb 06, 2024
How Colleges Broke Canadian Immigration
Jan 30, 2024
Sabrina Maddeaux: A Millennial Running to be a Conservative
Jan 23, 2024
The Three Types of Middle Class
Jan 19, 2024
Is a 10.5% Property Tax Increase Reasonable?
Jan 16, 2024
John Rapley: Is Canada's Economy in Decline?
Dec 29, 2023
Trudeau Talks Capping International Student Visas
Dec 22, 2023
How Pre-Approved Home Designs Could Help Affordability
Dec 20, 2023
Why You Should Care About (and Understand) Bond Yields
Dec 15, 2023
How the BC Housing Minister is Going Big on Housing Supply
Dec 12, 2023
Trudeau Liberals' Fall Economic Statement Earns a C- Grade
Nov 24, 2023
Green Leader Mike Schreiner on Fixing Housing in Ontario
Nov 10, 2023
Is Ontario Setting Up Cities to Fail Their Housing Targets?
Nov 09, 2023
How Realistic is this Housing Plan Anyway?
Nov 03, 2023
Are Development Charges Fair to Millennials and Gen Z?
Oct 26, 2023
Ontario Towns and Cities Debate Zoning for Multiplexes
Oct 20, 2023
How the Left and Right Approach Economics These Days
Oct 05, 2023
How Universities and Colleges Make the Housing Crisis Worse
Sep 27, 2023
Doug Ford Puts Land Back in the Greenbelt
Sep 24, 2023
We Need More Competition
Sep 19, 2023
Things Really are Different Now!
Sep 19, 2023