Ricardo Tranjan
@ricardo_tranjan
Followers
3,769
Following
1,907
Media
9
Statuses
423
Political economist @CCPA . PhD. Research and writing on rental housing, income security, #onted . Speaks EN, FR, PT, ES. Author of The Tenant Class.
Joined February 2018
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#WWEBadBlood
• 331182 Tweets
The Rock
• 295866 Tweets
Michigan
• 159054 Tweets
#precure
• 111947 Tweets
Vandy
• 102695 Tweets
#ブンブンジャー
• 76785 Tweets
Roman
• 74605 Tweets
Yankees
• 73422 Tweets
Dodgers
• 69583 Tweets
Vanderbilt
• 69313 Tweets
Dark MAGA
• 62374 Tweets
Bama
• 61645 Tweets
トッキュウジャー
• 59171 Tweets
Ohtani
• 52623 Tweets
Shohei
• 52184 Tweets
Watch Sant RampalJi YouTube
• 51285 Tweets
#仮面ライダーガヴ
• 49637 Tweets
#UFC307
• 47881 Tweets
ドジャース
• 44128 Tweets
プリキュア
• 41539 Tweets
Rhea
• 39776 Tweets
Royals
• 27155 Tweets
Goldberg
• 26646 Tweets
ワンダフル
• 25787 Tweets
Gago
• 25734 Tweets
ポストシーズン
• 23867 Tweets
Raquel
• 23111 Tweets
Ashton Jeanty
• 18476 Tweets
Gunther
• 18102 Tweets
いろはちゃん
• 16735 Tweets
ニチアサ
• 14145 Tweets
同点3ラン
• 13470 Tweets
大谷さん
• 11217 Tweets
Yamamoto
• 10260 Tweets
Education spending has dropped by 11% since 2018 - per capita, inflation-adjusted.
#onted
,
#onpoli
, check out
@ccpa
’s analysis of Ont’s financial statement, by
@SheilaBlockTO
&
@RandyFRobinson
.
38
334
483
My latest
@TorontoStar
: Rent controls don’t reduce housing supply, but they do limit profit.
26
181
374
This capital gain debate is another distraction. The richest 20% owns 68% of Canada's wealth; the bottom 40% owns 3% (StatCan, Daily, 24-04-17). To change the distribution, we ought to heavily tax land rent - starting with capital gains on principal residences
#canpoli
28
44
198
There Is No Housing Crisis. Supply alone will not solve a problem that large sections of the population don’t want to fix - excerpt of my new book, The Tenant Class
@thewalrus
15
55
121
Journalists covering housing should follow this closely.
We continue the occupation of the office at 1440 Lawrence Avenue West. The owner of the building Aziz Manji gave his word to the tenant over the phone. Now they are calling the police.
This is the brutal reality that tenants have to live through in Toronto today.
2
54
116
7
66
113
Landlord illegally evicted a tenant with disabilities to rent the unit on Airbnb, then organized a homelessness fundraiser.
Let’s not fake surprise.
It's normal to profit from housing while paying lip service to housing affordability.
Full article:
3
71
115
@fordnation
is All Talk And No Action: he briefs the public every day; other premiers, they're busy at work, finding ways to improve health care. Health spending has gone up 2 to 3 times more in other provinces
#onpoli
#onted
Analysis by
@SheilaBlockTO
:
6
49
92
With the fiscal update, the federal government reiterated its unshakable support for private housing markets.
Advocates can continue to plead for a little more funding for public and non-market housing - or go on the offensive.
My latest for
@IRPP
1
24
56
Flattered to be in such good company, including close comrades
@SheilaBlockTO
and
@Martine_August
.
We are proud to announce the shortlists for this year's Jack Layton Progress Prize and Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research.
Winners will be announced at the 2024 Progress Summit, taking place April 10 - 12 in Ottawa.
Learn more at
0
5
29
1
3
41
My toddler holds her toothbrush steady and shakes her head in a circular motion. And I can’t bring myself to correct her.
4
1
42
@CCPA_Ont
calculated the number of teachers each Ontario school board will lose as a result of larger class sizes and mandatory e-learning. Check out this interactive map.
#onted
#RedForEd
#NoCutsToEducation
1
58
40
Child poverty rates dropped in 2020 - showing income supports work – but the fed gov cancelled those supports, amid high inflation. In
#onpoli
, social assistance keeps families in deep poverty. In this rich country of ours, poverty is a political choice.
0
21
36
1. CMHC study: When empirical analyses show null results, Rent Control Guardians recur to neoclassical theory - where demand and supply rules apply to house/land the same as to bananas, and price controls of any kind are always bad. This is a claim
not an empirical argument. 2/9
3
5
25
Check out this review. Thanks,
@colefwebber
and
@squashhawley
, for continuing the conversation.
I wrote a critical review of Ricardo Tranjan's new book The Tenant Class, with
@squashhawley
.
Get the book from
@readBTLbooks
.
5
22
72
0
8
22
@LukewSavage
As a Marxian sociologist, Fernando Henrique Cardoso helped develop Dependency Theory. Years later, as Brazilian president, he oversaw the rollout of neoliberal policies.
2
0
22
I talked to
@jackermann
about my new book, The Tenant Class.
The "housing crisis" isn’t really a crisis, but the market working exactly as intended. The eternal search for "win-win" solutions is indeed a distraction. Let's talk power.
#canpoli
0
4
20
(Prof colleagues everywhere, this Post op-ed will be very useful in the classroom; it illustrates many points in critical political economy). 9/9
0
2
20
Many have argued against the oversimplification of supply and demand dynamics in housing and land markets. My favourite scholar on this topic is
@jryancollins
. 3/9
2
2
18
This sort of attack against people who dare to propose a discussion on rent control is very common. Elsewhere, I have called it rent control bullying. We can’t let it kill the debate. 8/9
1
3
16
2. IJPH study: The article clearly distinguishes btw rent freezes and 2nd-gen controls (which is what we have). The regression analysis for 2nd-gen show no negative impact. (See Table 2). Rent Control Guardians ignore this distinction - every time! 4/9
2
4
16
3. U.S economists letter: if everything else fails, Rent Control Guardians recur to ad-hominem
arguments (personal attacks). The most cliche one - and the one used here - is that the other side of the debate is not “economist enough.”
7/9
2
3
14
4. Cherry-picking case studies: After dismissing large N analysis showing a nuanced story about rent control (types of controls, specific periods, etc), Rent Control Guardians will tell us the story of San Francisco, or some other place somewhere that fits their argument. 6/9
1
2
13
Merci
@BernierHebert
@PivotQc
, pour ce génial article à propos de mon nouveau livre.
#cdnpoli
#polqu
#onfr
0
7
10
By the way, I corresponded with the study’s authors regarding their conclusion about 2nd-gen controls (aka the piece that matters for current Canadian debates). 5/9
1
1
10
"On housing, the fall fiscal update is more spin than substance."
Check out the full analysis by
@ccpa
's
@hadrianmk
&
@MarcLeeCCPA
0
14
8
@leilanifarha
@ryanjbell
Vickie Been et al.' article "Supply Skepticism" in Housing Policy Debate (2019) has an insightful analysis of the limitations of the filtering down argument (w/ tks to
@1alexhemingway
for pointing me to this study).
0
1
7
@squashhawley
In an adjudicatory system, if one of the sides invariably pushes for faster rather than fairer decisions, it must be very confident about its odds.
1
1
4
Friday
#onpoli
read: "For millions of people, the fact that the provincial budget is now balanced—more or less—brings no joy." New
#onbudget
analysis from the team at
@CCPA_Ont
:
@SheilaBlockTO
@RandyFRobinson
@ricardo_tranjan
0
12
16
0
3
4
@dylan_reid
@dgrdon
@readBTLbooks
Interesting piece, Dylan. Intergenerational transfer of wealth through housing assets, and the inequality it entrenches, especially in a country with no inheritance tax, is problematic and seldom discussed.
1
0
4
@munakadri
Hey Muna, $2.3b is an increase vis-a-vis 2022-23; so, we need to look at the year-over-year increase in fed $$$. In this source of yours, it is 0.4m; a more recent FAO report puts it at $830m. Plus, the Ont gov has $213 for a kind of accelator.
1
0
4
@beheshtialex
@thewalrus
The argument is not against the discipline of economics; it’s about the political manipulation of an economic postulate. But you’re welcome to ignore the nuance to try and sound clever.
1
0
3
Dans cet article,
@lepage_yanick
présente un excellent résumé et une mise en contexte du dernier rapport du
@CCPA_Ont
sur la pauvreté des enfants.
@Campaign2000
#onpoli
#onFR
0
2
3
0
0
3
@MatthewGreenNDP
Thank you,
@MatthewGreenNDP
! I hope the book is usetul to you and the Hamilton-based militants you support and represent.
1
0
3
“Requiring that people connect with their landlords to apply for a one-time supplement is problematic at best, and disrespectful to its core.”
#cndpoli
0
3
3
@JackieP77652306
@ArmineYalnizyan
Related to this,
@JackieP77652306
, check out this recent piece by
@bmdoucet
and
@lauragpin
.
0
0
3
0
0
3
@JohnPasalis
Ottawa picked the dicey road to lower rents. Quebec is right not to follow: instead of handing more money to developers, it plans to invest in public, co-op, and not-for-profit housing. It makes sense.
2
1
2
@beheshtialex
@thewalrus
Maybe, if you had read it yourself, you would know I argue additional supply is necessary. But you’re welcome to criticize my work based on word of mouth.
1
0
2
@CWhitzman
@CMHC_ca
And those rental units won't be rent controlled. Tenants will have to sign a blank check to their landlords.
1
2
3
0
0
2
0
0
1
@PSodhan
@surreylibrary
Thank you for the generous review,
@PSodhan
. I’m glad you found the book helpful.
0
0
2
@RigelSergent
@luchainquilina
Hola Rigel! E-book hay, pero no se ha traducido; ojalá haya oportunidades de hacerlo.
0
2
2
@JackieP77652306
@ArmineYalnizyan
This is a crucial piece. Tenancy legislation cannot focus exclusively on mitigating risk and ensuring returns to landlords/investors.
1
0
1
@Kathy_Edm
@dgrdon
@readBTLbooks
Kathy, it argues the private rental market is about profit and wealth accumulation, not about housing security, affordability, accessibility, or any other social outcome. It’s a short book and a broad analysis. If you opt to read it, I hope you find it useful.
0
0
2
0
0
1
@AhmarSKhan
For the 2022-23 fiscal year, Total Taxation Revenue is $144.7B; expenditure in Education is $32.4B. So about 22%. If you use Total Revenu (incld. transfers), $200.4 billion, it goes down to 16%.
1
0
1
Thread re:
#JustTransition
by
@hadrianmk
2
0
1
@SullivanRay
@CHRA_ACHRU
@jyduclos
@AnitaAnandMP
@cafreeland
@SeanFraserMP
In other words, a very different program focused on non-market housing would've been a good idea - but *this* is yet more incentives to the private sector with meagre affordability requirements. I agree with your points, Ray, but not your opening statement.
0
0
1
0
0
1
overview of the public finance context for
#healthcare
debates in
#onpoli
; also relevant for
#onted
.
As Canada’s premiers and
@JustinTrudeau
meet today to discuss
#healthcare
, here’s a
#funfact
about
#onpoli
govt finances…. and a 🧵
9
27
34
0
0
1
@leilanifarha
@ArielTroster
Non-market housing, as Centretown did back then, in the 1970s-80s.
0
0
1
1
0
1
@beheshtialex
@thewalrus
Great critical review here, by
@colefwebber
&
@squashhawley
, fuelled a good conversation:
1
1
1
@beheshtialex
@thewalrus
That’s not it all. I love engaging with criticism. I just find it easier to do with people who read my work.
2
0
0
@gillesenvrac
Absolument. L'approche est correcte, mais les montants ne sont pas suffisants. Et il faudrait que ce soit une agence publique qui construise, pour que l'argent aille plus loin.
0
0
1