Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Can you ask how his endorsement of Fairclough relates to housing, is there something that convinced him she would take in the issue seriously? 010
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The meta point is that council(s) tend towards doing nothing, so the level of unfairness and inefficiency needed to spur any action is unfathomable, and we just watch them flop around with bad arguments 090
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Nowhere is the gerontocracy more alive, and unrepentant, than municipal government. 0235
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Appreciate this given how awful it must've been 150
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Haven't heard anything other (understandable given that until the revisions it seemed on track). Last I heard they were going even tighter on intl students 010
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026deny.substack.com/p/revision-c...deny.substack.comRevision ConsiderationsWhat to make of population data revisions - and what it means for rents 110
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Of all places, you’d think Windsor would have bigger things in mind. But that municipal politics folks! Don’t let these people decide anything! 0101
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fair! Thats one candidate more than is proposing congestion pricing / tolls 110
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My thinking is that the the CAP losers are still a relatively small group for now, so the much broader group would only need a ~10% hike to cut the CAP losers by 50% 220
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Flabbergasted to learn that Toronto is considering peak hour pricing for TRANSIT. Tolls are inconceivable but this is fine? 2348
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Send novelty checks to the winners and dare them to 100
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The ultimate version of this is to set up new buyer or new home tax credits / checks that will roughly approximate the CAPs impact and pay for it with rate increases 161
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Non-market housing that people can actually afford to buy 🤔 051
Reposted by Deny SullivanJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Me quoted in the Star today, reasserting what might be my least popular take: Toronto needs formal, organized political parties www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...thestar.comToronto tried — and failed — to put political parties on city election ballots decades ago. Why this time may be differentIn 1969, Toronto tried a political party experiment. Now, powerful advocacy groups act as de facto parties behind the scenes. 4355
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Maritime transport efficiency remains DIFFERENT 2321
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Alberta is calling* but we don’t want to house you 060
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Weak shit from a libertarian Premier. Alberta is falling, less obtrusive government, but a couple talk radio calls from angry seniors and we’re caving 2262
Reposted by Deny SullivanEric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) @ericlombardi.ca · 25/09/2026It's time to end Ontario's era of "Tall and Sprawl". Our archaic building code rules have resulted in housing that is uglier, more expensive, and with fewer units that make sense for families. By changing the rules, we can build communities more beautifully and affordably. 14911
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026At some point you need to ask whether the petty complaints of seniors are worthy of publishing. Like, this is fodder for thanksgiving dinner talk, not the CBC, and surely not a pressing matter of government 818521
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fair enough, I think we’re so far from a ban unfortunately 100
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New blog! About how to tackle online sports betting deny.substack.com/p/how-to-cur...deny.substack.comHow to curb online sports bettingSunlight is the best disinfectant 100
Reposted by Deny SullivanJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We let national immigration policy be thwarted by the median council votes in Toronto and Vancouver and it's nuts to me that's not how this is understood. 820138
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Seems really bad to you, but many with homes might not mind. IMO part of the mental gymnastics at play is that DCs are needed to keep prices up 100
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Plenty of middle ground. Most PPPs have much stricter limits on tolls and still get free-flow speeds 110
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HAF work good is a very outside-Ontario assessment fyi. Soemhwere between underwhelming and Trainwreck in Ontario… 140
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Availability payments (instead of tolls) are very common in highways. IIRC the new stretch to antigonish is privately funded and operated that way 000
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I am a firm believer that incremental policy changes can vastly improve housing for the many 020
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Seems pretty cookie cutter, but it only “happened” 6 months ago, 2 years after Halifax 010
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New blog! about ottawa & transit deny.substack.com/p/death-of-a...deny.substack.comDeath of a Transit SystemOttawa botched a shift to rail 383
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Don’t want to expose anyones dirty laundry, but can show stock market reactions. In 2022 ALX (aussies) bid to buy Chicago’s Skyway toll road from OMERS. The stock fell 15-20% immediately and hasn’t recovered. 010
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Partly, but it’s also the intense commercial pressure for these people to get deals done. Principal agent problems are critical in finance 120
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Working in infrastructure investing, it is very often the complete opposite, with investors crazily overbidding for the extremely rare chance at these assets 280
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Need to short circuit the NIMBYs with “modern methods of construction” and modular! 010
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026yes tolls could basically fully cover it over a few decades, at the right price 120
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What's interesting is that Melford could unlock a huge amount of transit and housing in Halifax if it replaced the South End terminal for...$357m 3102
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026MacKay bridge "Exceeding $3bn" in CapEx in pitchbook 382
Reposted by Deny SullivanPhil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I have had one bad large corporate landlord in the past. In contrast, I've had multiple bad holding company/solo landlords that were all local. Corporate landlords can be good and bad. Local landlords can be good and bad. We valorize the latter too much. 3234
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I get that hating capitalism is like catnip, but housing is one of least capitalistic sectors! Every detail of what, where, and how is set by (especially local) governments. 2141
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Progressives continuously center their housing advocacy around financialization, and its a mistake. Countless words about Milton Friedman and REITs, and very little thought about how racialized communities are victims of a planning system that enshrines the Glebe, and forces development onto them 3162
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New blog! deny.substack.com/p/rental-mar...deny.substack.comWho's a good landlord?Mom-and-pops, REITs, and market concentration 292
Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thanks. I appreciate the work this took. I think my bigger qualms are with the implications of the report. Do we know that smaller landlords would be any better? deny.substack.com/p/rental-mar...deny.substack.comWho's a good landlord?Mom-and-pops, REITs, and market concentration 000
