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.
Resolving Canada’s housing shortage requires a whole-of-government approach
Housing supply should be factored into all economic, regulatory, and monetary policy decisions.
‘Your friends are constantly keeping your feet to the fire’: meet two staffers helping to confront Canada’s housing crisis
‘Housing is an important issue, it’s an important issue for the Canadian people, it’s an important issue for young people, it’s an important issue for me,’ says Josh Mbandi.
Affordable Housing
