Affordable Housing

Mostly in their own words, here are their housing platforms.   The Conservative Party will axe the sales tax on new homes, saving families up to $65,000 on the purchase of a home and $3,000 on yearly mortgage payments while spurring a homebuilding boom. sell off 6,000 federal buildings and thousands of acres of federal … Read more

It’s always a delight to see new, non-profit affordable housing projects get underway. On Tuesday April 8, Indwell will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Acorn Flats, the final building on the old Royal Oak Dairy site near Victoria and Barton. Already on the site is Ain-dah-ing, with 13 units of Indigenous housing and the offices … Read more

RentalRescue is one of the more intriguing organizations working to preserve existing affordable homes. Led by Krystal Valencia, RentalRescue buys for-profit apartment buildings with affordable rents, to preserve them at their existing rents. This saves buildings from being purchased by landlords intent on evicting affordable-rent tenants to raise the rent and maximize profits.  With financing … Read more

Some good news — solidarity, courage and organizing can make a difference! The tenants at 103 Emerald St. S. have won their case against an investor-landlord attempting to renovict them.  Some of you will recall hearing Amanda Dick, one of the tenants at 103 Emerald St S. who spoke at our November 15th Tenant Forum … Read more

Helping tenants through the crisis while we wait for new affordable non-market homes The Maytree Foundation has recently proposed permanent housing benefits to bridge the gap between low incomes and high rents. The benefits would need to be supported by improved rent controls, including an end to unlimited increases when tenancies change, to limit rent … Read more