November 13, 2025
Taesoo Song, Asian American Research Center Graduate Fellow, recently published an article in the Journal of Urban Affairs. The paper examines the evolution and impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes (FBTs) in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. Song shows how FBTs gained political traction through racialized narratives that framed foreign—especially Chinese—buyers as key culprits of housing unaffordability, deflecting attention from broader structural issues in the housing market that enabled speculation.