Housing the latest skirmish pitting progressive government against zombie neoliberalism
The growing disparity in wealth between homeowners and those who cannot afford to buy into the residential lottery has become a pressing matter of inequality.
Freeland’s budget should focus on housing, ending homelessness, writes Ottawa reader
More and more people are homeless in Ottawa and across Canada due to the rapidly increasing cost of housing. In the federal budget on April 16, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland must focus on housing and ending homelessness, with a particular emphasis on providing direct financial support, such as a homelessness prevention and housing benefit to […]
Better climate-risk mapping data a must as Canada addresses housing crisis, says experts
The state of flood and hazard mapping across Canada is varied, with some of the available data around 30 or 40 years old, according to Sarah Miller, research lead for adaptation with the Canadian Climate Institute.
Canada needs a national housing standard to protect migrant agricultural workers: KAIROS
KAIROS echoes the call for the establishment and enforcement of a national housing standard to protect migrant agricultural workers. This must include ending indentured labour in Canada, which, for decades, has driven substandard living quarters and other workplace abuses such as underpayment, physical and sexual abuse, and unsafe working conditions, to name a few. Government attempts to […]
Canada needs a comprehensive, national plan for refugee claimant housing
With emergency shelters overwhelmed, and alarming headlines telling of refugee claimants sleeping on the streets in Toronto and other major Canadian cities, this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.
From crisis to solution: a national acquisition fund can help ease housing crisis
The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, B.C.’s Rental Protection Fund, and the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada propose a national acquisition fund to move rental homes into community ownership through non-profits and co-operatives, protecting their affordability forever.
Why aren’t we talking about long-term care when we talk about the housing crisis?
Without deliberate consideration and action, much of an entire generation of older Canadians will be without the housing and care they need.
Getting hosed on housing
The feds are relying on neoliberal economic policies of letting the market decide to build affordable housing. Well, the market decided we should all be poor.
Unlocking home ownership: tackling Canada’s interim occupancy challenge
Getting rid of interim occupancy would save individual home buyers tens of thousands of dollars.
Skilled tradespeople are essential to solving Canada’s housing crisis
Here are three ways to solve the housing crisis through skills training.
