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.
When politicians make students the scapegoats
Students are being attacked for being too “woke”; for submitting too readily to their institutions’ diversity, equity, and inclusion policies; for tolerating and even promoting anti-Semitism on campus; and now for driving up the cost of housing.
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.
Unifor ‘in full campaign mode’ as MPs discuss controversial anti-scab legislation
Advocacy groups representing workers and businesses are ramping up outreach to MPs to discuss Bill C-58 as the House resumes.
Affordable Housing
Nunavut’s infrastructure and housing crises are closely linked and need a federal partner to step up
New houses create additional infrastructure burdens on communities that the federal government must help them to address.
Resolving the housing crisis: governments and stakeholder collaboration is key
Collaboration leads to the identification and implementation of best practices, and serves as an effective instrument for non-inflationary economic growth.
Why Canada must protect the existing affordable housing stock
Canada has among the lowest community housing stock of all G7 countries, yet the Liberals’ National Housing Strategy aims to create a mere 5,000 community housing units per year.
