This is a book about how we can solve Canada's housing crisis. This book is written with passion, knowledge, and empathy. Gregor Craigie is a master writer. No wonder he's a Balsillie Prize finalist.
Gregor Craigie has talked with local experts, tenants, owners, and homeless people across Canada. They all straining under tightening financial pressures. It's like we are all suffering, not just one sector of our society.
From interviews around the globe, Craigie shows how other North American and international jurisdictions are housing their citizens better, faster, and with determination. They have solutions that we could use and put into practice because they have worked in the past.
The prescription for how we're going to house ourselves requires both business and social solutions, working hand-in-hand with all levels of government in order to catch up with, and outpace the needs of Canadians in this ever-intensifying crisis over a basic human right.
This book is well-researched and well-written. It is a book that will pull at your heart strings. And if it does, it is meant to do so.
This is a book that I couldn't put down when I started to read it. It is a book that is monumental and important in its breath and depth.
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