Federal Reforms to Improve Housing Affordability is the latest installment in the Institute’s essay series on federal policy reforms. This essay documents the large and growing imbalance between housing supply and demand, and highlight’s the federal government’s influence on housing markets.

Measuring Ontario’s Prosperity Gap at The Metropolitan Area Level is a new study that ranks employment incomes in the largest 107 metropolitan areas around the Great Lakes region for 2019. It finds that London (93rd) and Windsor (99th) are right near the bottom and are $10-12,000 less than median employment incomes in Detroit, Buffalo and Cleveland.

Analysis of Changes in Median Employment Income in Large Canadian and American Metropolitan Areas, 2010-2019 is a new study that ranks employment income growth in the largest 141 metropolitan areas in Canada and the United States from 2010 to 2019, finding that only three Canadian cities rank in the top half, with Toronto—Canada’s largest metropolitan area—ranking 102nd.