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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...

Homelessness in Canada has reached a humanitarian crisis level, experts warn

Right to Housing Emily Fagan -
Click here to view original web page at ricochet.media Increasingly since the pandemic, in cities across the country, more and more people are choosing to...

Tenants take back power from landlords through strike action

Right to Housing Georgia Kelly -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Individually, tenants have almost no negotiating power. But that could change when they get together with...

The National Housing Strategy won’t end homelessness without supportive housing

Right to Housing Abe Oudshoorn -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Thousands of people across Canada experience homelessness. Between 2020 and 2022 more than 32,000 people across...

How Airbnb and short-term rentals have decimated housing in Canada

Right to Housing Zachary Kamel , Sam Harper, Brishti Basu, and Anupriya Dasgupta -
Click here to view original web page at ricochet.media Ricochet and Pivot are investigating Airbnb and short-term rentals.We recently launched ...

Organized tenants are racking up wins against landlords and politicians

Right to Housing Ricardo Tranjan -
Click here to view original web page at breachmedia.ca The rent strikes making headlines in Toronto are the result of one force: tenant organizing. Across Canada,...

Learning from Austria: The economic benefits of affordable housing

Right to Housing Gerald Koessl -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Providing affordable housing is not only doing the right thing. ...

Landlords Are One of the Leading Causes of Canada’s Rent Crisis

Right to Housing Mitchell Thompson -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Dismissing Canada’s rental crisis as nothing but a supply-demand issue overlooks the fact...

The Tenant Class: What’s Behind the ‘Housing Crisis’ in Canada?

Right to Housing Andrea Bennett -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca ‘The Tenant Class’ makes the case that rents are high for some so profits can be...

Community self-determination can address the Northern housing crisis

Right to Housing Julia Christensen, Christina Goldhar,Jeffrey Herskovits, Shelagh McCartney, Mylene Riva and Rebecca Schiff -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org Leadership from Northern communities and a strategy to build homes – not just houses – is...

Evictions of the houseless is state violence

Right to Housing Cathy Crowe -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Evicting the houseless from encampments is state violence and ignores the real solution of...

The federal budget has to fund housing and shelter rights

Right to Housing Cathy Crowe -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca “home is the comfiest place to be” -Winnie the Pooh. Home. What does it mean to you? If...

Canada Doesn’t Need More Renters, It Needs Public Housing

Right to Housing David Moscrop -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Housing is in the news in Canada. Housing is always in the news in Canada. Because...

Housing Report: The Solutions Go Beyond Simply Building More

Right to Housing Tsahai Carter -
Click here to view original web page at www.broadbentinstitute.ca As the Ontario government begins to undertake the task of addressing housing affordability in the province,...

Common ground between the housing and farm crisis

Right to Housing Lois Ross -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca A parliamentary petition seeks to solve the growing problem of ...

Repurposing private rental housing to create a new generation of social housing: A clear path out of the housing crisis

Right to Housing Alex Diner -
Click here to view original web page at neweconomics.org The UK's lack of social housing has caused a crisis of high rents and evictions. It's...
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