It's always been expensive to own a home. But with real estate prices at a high, one expert says those born in generations who were able to get in the market before it spiked in the last decade or so have won a kind of “birth-year…
The Globe and Mail
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Kelly Grant
– Sep 16, 2019, 2:00 AM
The largest academic hospital in Canada is planning to offer a radical new treatment for its neediest patients: a place to live. The University Health Network (UHN) in downtown Toronto has committed a plot of land worth nearly $10-million to a…
The New York Times
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Robin Pogrebin
– Sep 14, 2019, 10:55 AM
Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn't prepared for what she'd find there. A top student in southwestern Connecticut, she studied hard but socialized little. She was raised Catholic and had a sheltered upbringing. In…
The Globe and Mail
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Rachelle Younglai
– Sep 13, 2019, 3:44 PM
Navin Seepaul is a 29-year-old single dad who makes $30,000 a year as a barber. He owns a $1-million house in Brampton, a sprawling suburb northwest of Toronto. Each month, the payments on his roughly $700,000 mortgage are $4,300. On top of that…
Is this the age of the great metropolitan exodus? In 2018, the New York City area lost more than 100,000 people to other cities and suburbs—that's 277 people leaving every day. The Los Angeles and Chicago areas lost, respectively, 201 and…