{"podcast":{"title":"The Grand Parade","slug":"the-grand-parade-5748300","podcast_index_feed_id":5748300,"rss_url":"https://feed.pod.co/the-grand-parade","website_url":"https://pod.co/the-grand-parade","image_url":"https://images.pod.co/QqhjXLslF51RNrdB7dJlynjRNatcbRsNrALxA0rDtYQ/resize:fill:1500:1500/plain/artwork/e71d5393-a061-4a2f-86a1-c30db7b51973/the-grand-parade-1742223628.jpg","author":"Matt Stickland","episode_count":131,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T16:21:48.689899+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300"},"episode":{"title":"How council makes housing unaffordable","slug":"how-council-makes-housing-unaffordable","published_at":"2026-06-08T08:03:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300/how-council-makes-housing-unaffordable","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300","url":"https://www.grandparade.news","audio_url":"https://downloads.pod.co/cd18d5bf-3dbf-4ab7-9264-ddf68d638348/234db4a9-477e-4b3b-bee8-7bab577bb44f.mp3","summary":"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 &a…","meta_description":"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 Mat…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2174,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grand-parade-5748300/episodes/how-council-makes-housing-unaffordable/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300/how-council-makes-housing-unaffordable.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}