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    Understanding Toronto’s 20% Drop in Housing Starts

    Recent headlines suggest that Toronto’s residential construction activity has plunged, with industry analysts voicing concerns about a potential “collapse” in new housing starts. This anxiety…

    Murtaza 18 November 2024
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    UAI and Transport Futures hosting GTA Transit Summit on September 4

    Transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) finds itself at a pivotal juncture. Externally, oscillations in ridership and revenue streams are observable, largely…

    Murtaza 1 September 2024
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    Interest rate cuts won’t fix Canada’s housing affordability crisis

    Since interest rates began to rise in early 2022, housing affordability in Canada has worsened. And while the Bank of Canada’s recent and expected rate cuts may…

    Murtaza 3 July 2024
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    The Dutch Disease: Cyclists account for 40% of road deaths in the Netherlands

    The ubiquitous use of cycling as a mode of travel in the Netherlands has an ugly side: cyclist fatalists outnumber road deaths for any other…

    Murtaza 8 January 2024
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    Did Covid-19 result in higher crime on public transit?

    Murtaza Haider analyzes the increase in crimes on transit properties and vehicles since the onset of the pandemic in Toronto. He found that since April…

    Murtaza 5 March 2023
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Estimating Average Treatment Effects with R

Murtaza 19 November 2020 causal inferencetreatment effects

Ryerson Urban Analytics Institute is pleased to invite you to a webinar on: Causal Inference by Empirical Balancing Calibration Weighting When: November 23, 2020. 1:30…

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Rental markets are showing increasing weakness

Murtaza 9 November 2020 housingreal estaterental

Murtaza Haider writes in the Financial Post about the weakening rental housing markets. See the URL below for the column. https://financialpost.com/real-estate/listings-skyrocket-while-leases-are-up-and-rents-are-down-making-sense-of-the-complex-covid-rental-market? “Rental markets are showing…

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The political economy of urban transportation in India

Murtaza 5 November 2020

Ph.D. Opportunity in the Political Economy of Urban transport Decision-making and Financing in India Professor Madhav Badami at McGill University and colleagues invite expressions of…

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Statistics with Python

Murtaza 2 November 2020 analyticsdatadata sciencepythonstatistics

UAI’s Murtaza Haider is now offering a course on Statistics for Data Science with Python on Coursera. The course is a collaboration with IBM’s Data…

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Causal Inference for Complex Observational Data with Stata

Murtaza 20 October 2020 analyticsCausalityeconometricsStatastatistics

Ryerson Urban Analytics Institute is pleased to invite you to a webinar on: Causal Inference for Complex Observational Data with Stata When: November 02, 2020.…

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Fetching, visualizing, and analyzing Statistics Canada’s data using R.

Murtaza 16 October 2020 analyticsdatarstats

Ryerson Urban Analytics Institute is pleased to invite you to a webinar on Fetching, visualizing, and analyzing Statistics Canada’s data using R. October 19, 2020.…

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Why do Supply Skeptics ignore the need for new housing construction?

Murtaza 28 September 2020 affordability challengesconstructionhousingsupply

Housing affordability has been a large concern for Canadians who saw rents and prices climb rapidly over the years with no commensurate increase in incomes.…

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Knowledge mobilization to improve safety in ride-hailing and taxi services

Murtaza 10 September 2020 cabsride-hailingtaxitraffic safety

By Dr. Yemi Adediji Research findings from a report authored by researchers at the Urban Analytics Institute have been implemented in the revised regulations for…

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Motor vehicle sales during COVID-19 in Canada

Murtaza 21 August 2020

A newly released report by Convergent Labs (co-authored by Murtaza Haider) analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on motor vehicle sales in Canada. The report finds…

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Murtaza Haider writes about telework in The Land Economist

Murtaza 10 July 2020

Murtaza Haider contributed an op-ed to the latest issue of the Land Economist.  The latest issue will be available  at http://aole.org/publications/ Excerpt: A big shift,…

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  • How housing is helping immigrant families close the wealth gap22 April 2019
  • Two policy moves killed residential rental construction in Canada, and we’re still feeling the effects26 April 2019
  • Canada’s big-city housing markets are all at different stages of the cycle, April figures show24 May 2019
  • Housing affordability is getting worse even though prices are falling. How is that possible?28 May 2019
  • Overhauling Toronto’s outdated parking regulations will cut housing costs13 June 2019

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Murtaza Haider is the associate dean of graduate programs and the director of Urban Analytics Institute at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University.

Murtaza Haider

Associate Dean of Graduate Programs

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