Affordable Housing

Praise and Flak, and What the Other Parties Offer. The many housing pieces in the federal government are garnering praise for good initiatives and criticism for significantly insufficient investments, as our analysis last week did. Some links to good analyses are below.  What sets the Liberals apart from the Conservatives are investments in non-profit housing. … Read more

– Still does way too little for those most in need.  In a budget that really highlighted housing, it is disappointing that it contained relatively little for those who most need affordable homes.  The government’s major new initiative to build deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, and shelters is to make the Rapid Housing Initiative permanent. … Read more

 The Good, the Bad and the Provincial The details of all of the announcements Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recently made will be in the federal budget being delivered on April 16. We don’t know when announced spending will start and how many years it will be spread over. That is particularly important since this … Read more

  Canada has long signed on to international agreements that make safe, secure, affordable housing a human right. And that right is now recognized in Canadian law. A recent article tackles what it means: https://maytree.com/publications/we-cant-let-myths-about-the-human-right-to-housing-hold-us-back/ 

  Investors are buying up a large share of recently built housing (in some cities, it’s a majority of the units), a significant factor in the soaring cost of home ownership, an interesting article in a just-launched new journal, Perspectives, argues. https://perspectivesjournal.ca/housing-investor-ownership-part-1/