"the brain is not a “biological computer” because living organisms are not engineered. Engineering is the use of knowledge to solve technical problems, to build an artifact with a plan"

Hi Romain, interesting sounding book. Seems like there are some overlaps between the thesis and some of the work Peter Hacker and Maxwell Bennett -- are you aware of their work? I know Hacker has made this same argument:

reminder that this is often the same cohort that NIMBYs anything that’s not a SFH in their neighborhood, then complains about nothing being available that suits their needs.

Any polling on what they want? I have boomer aunts and uncles and their downsizing dreams are basically ground level SFH with 3 bedrooms. Not economically viable in many cities to build. They won’t touch condos or multiplexes.

Interesting. Okay, an issue you identified a while ago. Are there any pollsters you follow who asked open ended questions?

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Interesting. Which pollsters/polls do you follow?

I guess the developers and investors just don‘t exist in edmonton then?

you should follow Russil Vwong substack.com/home/post/p-...

There’s not one cause and clearly immigration did impact rental prices causing them to go higher. But the housing crisis existed before all that happened. The developer angle doesn’t hold up — go look at Edmonton and Winnipeg, much more affordable housing but still built by developers and investors.

I agree, but that doesn’t mean immigration doesn’t have an effect on rental costs. Hence following Moffat and the Missing Middle, you should know this stuff if you follow his work at all.

Many if not most of those units weren’t SFHs either, but small single bedroom condos.

We added 1.3 million people in a year and only built 200k homes.

So if Canada's population doubled in a year, you maintain housing prices and rental costs would not be impacted?