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Why Housing Costs Are So High

Right to Housing Patrick Condon -
Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca Editor’s Note: Patrick Condon is a well-respected voice on local planning issues and a contributor to...

We can’t buy and sell our way out of this housing crisis

Right to Housing Lawrence Braun-Woodbury -
Click here to view original web page at ricochet.media You can’t afford a house. Your rent is high and climbing fast. You feel poorer than...

Demystifying Community Housing

Right to Housing policy options series -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org Welcome to Demystifying Community Housing, a special series from the IRPP’s Policy Options Podcast, where we...

Are we home yet?

Right to Housing Cathy Crowe -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca There’s no place like home, but how is Canada doing to ensure ...

Millennial architects redefine Canadian dream of homeownership

Right to Housing Sara Montour -
Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca Affordability, climate change, and thriving communal spaces are prevalent themes of mainstream policy talk amid Vancouver’s...

To Fight the Housing Crisis, Upzone and Build Public Housing

Right to Housing Alex Hemingway -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com British Columbia’s housing crisis is among the worst in North America. ...

Lessons from the UK: Reforming local governments right to buy homes

Right to Housing Alex Diner and Hollie Wright -
Click here to view original web page at neweconomics.org Over almost four and a half decades since its introduction in 1980, the right-to-buy scheme has...

Debunking myths about community housing: What governments and the public should know

Right to Housing Yusha Zhu, Hanan Ali, Meg Holden and Natasha Mhuriro -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Canada’s Housing Plan is pledging an ambitious multilateral approach to build more housing, faster and cheaper,...

2024 federal budget: What’s in it for rental housing and homelessness?

Right to Housing Nick Falvo -
Click here to view original web page at nickfalvo.ca On 16 April 2024, the Government of Canada tabled the 2024 federal budget. The budget had...

Affordable Housing: 30 years relying on private sector a failed experiment

Right to Housing Shauna MacKinnon -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Politicians of all stripes say that housing affordability is a top priority. But few are saying...

Federal government goes big on housing—is it enough?

Right to Housing Jon Milton -
Click here to view original web page at www.policyalternatives.ca The federal government’s 2024 budget includes generational investments on housing affordability and runs a victory lap...

Prefabricated housing offers one solution to the supply crisis

Right to Housing Robert Breen -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org Canada is in a housing crisis, but we’re not giving ourselves a fighting chance to fix...

To solve the housing crisis, we must get government building housing again

Right to Housing Jennifer Hassum -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca To solve today’s housing crisis, we should look at how Canada successfully solved the housing crises...

How to start a community land trust

Right to Housing Nina Ignaczak -
Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net The land trust movement in the United States has gained notoriety over the past 30 years...

Housing policies need to fully consider market dynamics to move beyond ‘tall and sprawl’ cities

Right to Housing Dawn Parker -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The federal Task Force for Housing and Climate recently released its final recommendations for solving Canada’s...

Buying back better

Right to Housing Alex Diner, Sam Tims and Dr Abi O’Connor -
Click here to view original web page at neweconomics.org How social housing acquisitions in London can tackle homelessness ...

Upzoning Shouldn’t Be Given for Free, Says Economist

Right to Housing Christopher Cheung -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca The public deserves a share in the value upzoning creates, says Cameron Murray. Do landowners own the...

The time to solve Toronto’s student housing crisis is now

Right to Housing John Lorinc -
Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca International students are being blamed for exacerbating the city's housing crisis, but student housing in Toronto...

Hamilton council passes a bylaw to end renovictions, helping to address housing affordability

Right to Housing Brian Doucett -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The City of Hamilton took bold action to end renovictions, a practice where tenants are evicted...

Despite lack of safe shelter, displacement machine alive and well

Right to Housing Cathy Crowe -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca The city of Toronto seems to feel no shame when it comes to ...

B.C. housing plan could see 293,000 new units over next decade, says report

Right to Housing Dirk Meissner -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com The New Democrat government's ambitious home-building agenda could result in up to 293,000 new housing units...

Why the Opioid Crisis Is Rooted in the Housing Crisis

Right to Housing Kevin Patterson -
Click here to view original web page at thewalrus.ca What goes into a Nanaimo bar? Answer: a Hells Angel, a bouncer, and a drug dealer....

British Columbia’s proposed bill on ‘alternative shelter’ risks doing serious harm to unhoused people

Right to Housing Stepan Wood, Alexandra Flynn and Estair Van Wagner -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com A bill currently before the British Columbia legislature seeks to define “reasonably available” alternative shelter when...

A million new non-market homes in 10 years: That should be the goal

Right to Housing Carolyn Whitzman -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, between 10 and 25 per cent of new housing construction...

People love living in co-ops — so why did Canada kill the program?

Right to Housing Ximena González -
Click here to view original web page at ricochet.media The short answer: they cut into private landlord profits For more than a year, Brianne Zimmerman has...

We Should Look to Vienna for Answers to Our Housing Crisis

Right to Housing Fran Quigley -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com At the official opening of the legendary Karl-Marx-Hof municipal housing complex on October 12, 1930, Vienna...

4 affordable housing strategies that are working in Canada

Right to Housing Brian Doucett -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Cities like Vienna or Singapore are often referenced in news headlines proposing solutions for Canada’s housing...

CCPA: Private sector can’t do it, so governments have to build affordable housing

Right to Housing Karl Nerenberg -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca It is time for governments to move away from incentives ...

Toronto continues to give ‘short shrift’ in its responses to homelessness

Right to Housing Cathy Crowe -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Unethical, inhumane decisions are not unusual in Toronto’s history of providing shelter, writes columnist Cathy Crowe. Toronto...

How BC Could Tax Soaring Property Values for the Public Good

Right to Housing Alex Hemingway -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca Land wealth is fuelling inequality and rising housing costs. Here’s a solution. Property wealth has become a...
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