Canada: If Not Now... When? Addressing The Ongoing Inuit Housing Crisis In CanadaIndigenousPeoplesAdminNational Aboriginal Health Organization
Solving the housing crisis is simple. We need to significantly ramp up the creation of new affordable units while making sure the affordability is permanent. Building enough of these units can not only solve the housing crisis, but it can also provide ho
The Housing Crisis Big banks resume push for repossessions in wake of pandemic The Bureau has found hundreds of mortgage possession cases in courts since the ban on enforcing home repossessions was lifted – some over as little as £1,000 ...
Last year, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation reckoned that at this rate of population growth, we’d need to build at least 5.8 million homes in Canada over the next six years, just to restore some semblance of affordability. This isn’t going to happen. The construction industr...
Introduction: Housing shortages and poor quality housing are challenges for many of Canada's First Nations living on-reserve. Adverse housing conditions are associated with negative health consequences. Objective: The main aim of the study is to examine a seminal example of failed on-reserve housing...
One result of the current combination of widespread speculative housing promotion, reduced state provision and volatile regional and sub‐regional employment variations seems to be a growing polarisation between the ability of the housing system to cope with housing needs and demands at a local level...
the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index, house prices were driven in the past by big spikes in the price of oil and hopes in Canada’s oil patch for instant riches. But that hasn’t been the case since 2007, which was when the last oil-powered housing bubble peaked and the...
First, Josh Hjartarson is global leader for the Human Services at Deloitte Canada, based in Toronto. I asked if addressing housing insecurity and homelessness was simply a moral issue. Josh Hjartarson: There’s a very human dimension to this. [There’s a] moral imperative around doing a...
In the 1990s, housing finance reached a crisis point in the transforming housing sector. Loans practically disappeared as a resource for housing investments for households and were replaced by savings. Paradoxically, while the institutions of the market economy, including a competitive banking system, ...
Canada’s housing crisis is even more dire for the tens of thousands of people experiencing homelessness. Some people are in tent cities.Shelters are strugglingto support the demand. And supportive housing meant to get people off the streets and onto the path of opportunity areo...