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Vancouver’s Housing Debacle with Professor Tom Davidoff

Few people are more qualified to discuss topics surrounding housing in British Columbia than Tom Davidoff.

-BA (Harvard), MPA/URP (Princeton), PhD (MIT)

-Director of UBC's Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate.

-Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Divisions

-Five selected publications

Tom Davidoff has a truly deep understanding of the housing issues in BC, and specifically in Vancouver. In this podcast Andrew and Tom dissect many of the prominent housing issues including affordability, foreign investment (or lack there of), speculation, and the looming condo debacle. They talk about the prospect of an upcoming financial crisis, and Tom lays out how he would address the issue of affordability in Vancouver city.