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What Does Our $78-Billion Housing Program Really Fix?

Right to Housing Patrick Condon -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca Who knows? Canada spent five years and billions on the affordability crisis but still has no...

Federal government must confront challenges for Canadians who rent homes

Right to Housing Karl Nerenberg -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca A range of economic pressures are converging to make ...

Canada’s National Housing Strategy: Is it really addressing homelessness and affordability?

Right to Housing Jacquie Gahagan and Ren Thomas -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The National Housing Strategy (NHS) is a 10-year, $72-billion effort launched in 2017 to address key...

As Skyrocketing Rents Leave Refugees with Nowhere to Go, The Human Right to Housing is Needed More than Ever

Right to Housing Kirsten McRae -
Click here to view original web page at make-the-shift.org It’s in the news every day—people are forced to flee their homes in growing numbers due...

Why voting for municipal action on affordable housing is in everyone’s interest

Right to Housing James R. Dunn and Steve Pomeroy -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca The affordable housing crisis in Canada is putting people on the streets or forcing them to...

Who is ‘the public?’ The answer shapes how we address homelessness

Right to Housing Timothy Martin -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Housing affordability and homelessness are hot topics in municipal politics these days. But ironically, unhoused citizens...

ELECTION TORONTO: If not housing now, when?

Right to Housing John Lorinc -
Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca Is Housing Now dead? In case you missed seasons 1 to 3, city council in January, 2019,...

Is gentrification inevitable? A new book says no

Right to Housing Leslie Kern -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca A new book by Leslie Kern analyzes how gentrification happens, its causes, and ways to mitigate...

Toronto’s shelter hotels promised safe transitional housing—what happened?

Right to Housing Carlyn Zwarenstein -
Click here to view original web page at breachmedia.ca Content warning: this story discusses instances of sexual assault. Please read with care. Since COVID-19 hit Toronto,...

Safeguarding the right to “choice” and the right to housing in Canada

Right to Housing Rachel Cairns -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca The Supreme Court of Canada is reluctant to recognize positive rights like the right to an...

The Right To Housing Is About Accessibility, Not Just Affordability

Right to Housing Sal Amenta -
After a grueling pandemic from which we may (or may not) be emerging, the issue of affordability has taken centre stage due to steep price increases...

A Massive Expansion in Public Rental Homes Could Literally Pay for Itself

Right to Housing Alex Hemingway -
Click here to view original web page at jacobinmag.com In the face of a mounting housing crisis, British Columbia should massively increase public investment in...

Prescriptions for Our Housing Crisis

Right to Housing Ishmam Bhuiyan , Annie Foreman-Mackey and Sandra Smiley -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca What happens when we treat housing precarity as a health issue, and a moral one too? As...

Housing co-ops could solve Canada’s housing affordability crisis

Right to Housing Margaret Kohn -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The housing affordability crisis seems impossible to solve. Policies intended to help people priced out of...

The Right to Housing: A Social Commons Perspective 

Right to Housing David Thornley -
A social commons framework asserting that housing is a social right is critical to understanding the policies central to addressing the crisis in affordable...

Co-housing and dementia villages: Social innovations offer alternatives for long-term care

Right to Housing Sarah Tranum -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com COVID-19 has amplified existing cracks in the long-term care (LTC) system in Canada. We need socially...

How controlling land prices could help solve the housing crisis

Right to Housing Carolyn Ali -
Click here to view original web page at beyond.ubc.ca A new way of valuing housing density could lead to truly affordable housing Patrick Condon doesn’t buy...

What if we treat homelessness like a pandemic?

Right to Housing Sarah Tranum -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com COVID-19 outbreaks in shelters and other effects of the virus forced more people to sleep rough...
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