Affordable Housing

We can sometimes be judgmental and blame people we see who are homeless. But homelessness always starts with a landlord’s decision to evict someone. Terri Singer’s story is a reminder of that reality. Though homeless for some months, they were lucky that supportive housing was available to get them housed again.

A 201-unit building to be constructed at 409 Brant Street at James will be built as rental units, with the rent for 25 per cent of them geared to the tenants’ incomes. The developer scrapped plans for a condo on the site because the condo market has stalled. Federal subsidies support the affordable units. Read … Read more

Think of an iceberg, with its visible tip but most of it underwater. It’s a good way to think about those affected by the housing affordability crisis. People who once were housed but are now experiencing homelessness are the visible tip of the housing affordability crisis. They are the most obvious, and hardest hit, victims … Read more

CN Rail is still holding up work to creating affordable and market housing on the former Jamesville CityHousing Site. The project is to build 46 CityHousing units, with rents geared to income, up to 120 Indwell affordable units and 364 private market units on the site on James North at Strachan West. But CN continues … Read more

Canada’s Competition Bureau is investigating a range of tools that landlords and other businesses use to set rents and other prices. These tools are based on algorithms that use data not normally available, from many landlords, to propose what rent to charge on a unit. At issue is whether this allows landlords to collude in … Read more