Prime Minister Mark Carney wants Canada to build 500,000 housing units a year, twice the current level. But he hasn’t committed to a goal for non-profit and co-op housing, the kind of housing needed by low- and middle-income households who struggle to pay for-profit rents. We need those numbers to double, too, and then to double again. We need 500,000 units of non-profit and co-op housing by 2030. That’s 20 per cent of Carney’s goal, a level of non-profit building that this country saw around 1970 and again around 1980, as shown by the two peaks in the chart at right, which Dr. Carolyn Whitzman presented at our November Keys to Affordable Housing event. Please see our short letter to the prime minister here, adapt into to your own words and email it to mark.carney@parl.gc.ca And let us know when you do with a quick email to housing@uuhamilton.ca Thank you.
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