Meredith Martin 🇨🇦: There used to be this thing called a starter home, but what does that even mean anymore? And what are the consequences of locking a generation out of accessing it? @SabrinaMaddeaux has some ideas.

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Meredith Martin 🇨🇦 meredithmartin.bsky.social
There used to be this thing called a starter home, but what does that even mean anymore? And what are the consequences of locking a generation out of accessing it? @SabrinaMaddeaux has some ideas.
Feb 4, 2026 18:05
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Meredith Martin 🇨🇦 meredithmartin.bsky.social · Feb 4
On today's episode of Classonomics, @SabrinaMaddeaux & @MikepMoffatt explain why the starter home no longer works and how an entire generation has been locked out of moving up.
Why Condos Are Trapping a Whole Generation

Canada’s housing ladder is broken. In this episode of Missing Middle, Sabrina Maddeaux and Mike Moffatt explain why the starter home no longer works and how an entire generation has been locked out of moving up. They compare buying a detached home in 2004 for $168,000 with today’s reality, where co

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Meredith Martin 🇨🇦 meredithmartin.bsky.social · Feb 4
And for those of you who prefer to read the transcript rather than watch/listen, here's a link to our Substack: open.substack.com/pu...

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