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Business

How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives

May 24, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Emily Baron Cadloff

You can have a great credit history and still see your score plummet. How did the rating system become so powerful?

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Cities

How Empty Storefronts Are Killing Our Neighbourhoods

July 19, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Lucy Uprichard

All over North America, speculators are raising rents and pushing out tenants. Will our cities ever be the same?

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Society

Small-Town Homes, Big-City Prices: Welcome to the Everywhere Boom

June 3, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Sean Wetselaar

Sky-high housing prices have always been a problem in urban areas. Now, people are being priced out all over

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Living Rooms

How Real Estate TV Became a Cruel Joke

December 9, 2020December 10, 2020 - by Amil Niazi

Why would I want to watch celebrities shop for multimillion-dollar mansions while I get priced out of my own city?

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Housing

November 26, 2020February 4, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Why it matters for all

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Business

The Decade in Money

December 16, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Vancouver’s unaffordable housing to millennials planning for early retirement, these are the money conversations that defined Canada

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Society

How Neighbourhoods Are Built to Keep Out Single Women

June 27, 2019September 23, 2021 - by Cheryll Case

If we want more affordable housing, then we need to stop designing communities for traditional families

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Business / July/August 2019

Airbnb Versus Everyone

June 12, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

How the tech platform crowds the housing market and threatens neighbourhoods

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April 2019 / Business

Thinking of Buying a Waterfront Property? Read This First

March 4, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Paul Gallant

As climate-related dangers increase, insurance companies are changing where and how we build homes

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Society

Trying to Make Ends Meet in Vancouver

April 19, 2018August 13, 2019 - by Emily McCarty

How one family is living on the fine line between poverty and homelessness

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