The Grand Parade

Matt Stickland
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A Halifax city hall podcast, hosted by reporter Matt Stickland. An irreverent look at city hall, the policies they put forward and the people who decide on them for us.

  1. 1d ago

    How council makes housing unaffordable

    This is a research deep dive episode where host Matt Stickland goes into the weeds to explain how low property taxes make housing less affordable. Did Matt get anything wrong? Here are his sources: Oates (1969): the effects of property taxes and local public spending on property values Mieszkowski (1972): The property tax: an excise tax or a profits tax? Oats & Schwab (2009): The case for a land value tax Dye & England (2010) Assessing the theory and practice of land value taxation Bourassa (1990): The land value tax and housing development: A case study of Pittsburgh Tideman (1994): The Economics of Efficient taxes on land Palmon & Smith (1998): New evidence on property tax capitalization Lyu (2024): Revisiting property tax capitalization Hilber (2017): The economic implications of the house price capitalization: a synthesis Hull & Grodecka-Messi (2022): Measuring the impact of taxes and public services on property values: A double machine learning approach Charlot, Paty & Visalli (2013): Assessing the impact of local taxation on property prices: A spactia matching contribution Plassmann & Tideman (2000): A markov chain monte carlo analysis of the effect of two rate property taxes on construction Bruekner (1986): The structure of urban equilibria: A unified treatment of the Muth-Mills Model England & Zhao (2005): Assessing the distributive effects of a revenue-neutral shift from property tax to a land value tax Hartzok (1997): Pennsylvania’s Success with local property tax reform: The Split-Rate Tax Banzhaf & Lavery (2010): Can the land value tax be used to rejuvenate our cities? Development charge studies Singell & Lillydahl (1990): An Empirical Examination of the Effect of Impact Fees on the Price of New Real Estate. Ihlanfeldt & Shaughnessy (2004): An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Impact Fees on Housing and Land Prices. Dachis (2018/2024): Gimme Shelter: How High Municipal Housing Charges and Taxes Decrease Housing Supply. Skidmore & Peddle (1998): Do Development Impact Fees Reduce the Rate of Residential Development? Burge & Ihlanfeldt (2006): Impact Fees and Single-Family Home Construction. CMHC (2025): Development Charges: Who Bears the Cost? Dresch & Sheffrin (1997): Who Pays, and When? An Assessment of Generational Equity in the Case of Development Fees. Evans-Cowley & Lawhon (2003): The Effects of Impact Fees on Land Values and Development. Been (2005): Impact Fees and Housing Affordability And the Not Just Bikes video https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw?si=QG7OBmInRzzqZFpB

    36 min

  2. Jun 1

    The lies we tell about development fees

    Very sorry about the lack of show notes here. Personal life being what it was this past week proper show notes will be added (maybe). No one expects show notes from analog radio. This double standard is unfair! Or I'm just tired. Enjoy the show tho.

    29 min

  3. May 25

    The lies we tell about property taxes

    In this episode, host Matt Stickland goes deep on property tax policies and is forced to confront the fact that two of his long-held beliefs are, in fact, wrong. And a bit about last week's community planning and economic development standing committee meeting from last week.

    45 min

  4. May 18

    Five minutes once a month

    You can take Halifax's road safety survey right here, if you want: https://www.halifax.ca/home/surveys I can't rememeber what else I said I'd link in the show notes. I'm honestly not even sure I said I'd link this road safety survey.

    33 min

  5. May 11

    An award winning podcast episode

    A slow week at city hall, but a big week for the podcast, as the Grand Parade is now (or will be on June 20) an award-winning podcast! But you can check out the BOPC presentation referenced here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq1QnNoiTCg And you can provide feedback to them (after listening to that presenation) here: police.modernization@novascotia.ca And the book club book is this one: www.stopbigcar.com

    37 min

  6. May 4

    It's not corruption, it's the implication

    Did you know that show notes are like dinner? At first, they're super fun. You get to tell people about the show, but then it's like, eventually, you realize you have to do it, like every day, three times a day, and then it's just like 9pm on a Sunday night and you just want to go to bed? No? Me neither. Anyways, in this week's show we cover budget season starting early thanks to mayor Andy Fillmore. We take a trip to Philidelphia to talk about some implications. And the show closes out with a bit of an analysis of what a systems level approach to road safety looks like in Halifax. Enjoy episode 100.

    1h 10m

  7. Apr 27

    What if we had a plan to integrate our mobility?

    If you are a subscriber, you may have noticed that this episode didn't drop early for ya on the website. This is because something that Substack does as part of it's platform is private podcast RSS feeds for subscribers. This is something Ghost does for an additional fee and that fee is set based on the amount of listeners would need a feed and there are enough of you that I would immediately get bumped up to the second tier, which is just shy of $500 USD a year. So, instead, if you are a paid subscriber and want to continue getting access to my listening edit, please send me an email with the email attached to your paid account and you'll get 0-4 emails a week with an .mp3 of my listening edit attached

    53 min

  8. Apr 20

    David Hendsbee progressive tax champion

    If this placeholder text is still here, that means something went wrong with the website swap over the weekend, and I've run out of time to fix everything.

    49 min
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A Halifax city hall podcast, hosted by reporter Matt Stickland. An irreverent look at city hall, the policies they put forward and the people who decide on them for us.

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  • Creator
    Matt Stickland
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    125
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022 Listening post
  • Show Website
    The Grand Parade

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