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“Filling the hole in the bucket: Loss of existing affordable rentals massively undermining new affordable supply

At a national level, Canada is losing eleven lower rent affordable homes for every one home added (at considerable subsidy cost) under federal and federal-provincial-territorial programs. Read the article by Steve Pomeroy Industry Professor, McMaster University, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC).

CHEC Appearances

We can’t build ourselves out of this problem

Watch CHEC Executive Advisor Steve Pomeroy speak to Hamilton City Hall on strategies to help residents stay in their homes and create more affordable rental stock.

Podcast: The cost of rent continues to rise right across Canada

CHEC Director Jim Dunn discusses what can be done about soaring rental prices nationally with Ben O’Hara-Byrne on A Little More Conversation.

Housing First policy

350,000 affordable housing units lost in a decade

CHEC Industry Professor Steve Pomeroy’s presentation to the Parliamentary HUMA Committee re financialization of housing. Steve’s presentation is from 8:52:16-8:57:49.

Featured Research

 Paper

Examining the causes of escalating home prices in Canada 

CHEC’s Executive Advisor, Steve Pomeroy, contributed to the Summer 2023 edition of Housing Finance International published by the International Union for Housing Finance (IUHF).

PAPER

Housing Outcomes and Economies, the Environment and Governance 

Read CHEC Adjunct Professor Duncan Maclennan’s newly released papers on a systems approach to housing, and housing outcomes as interrelated to economies, the environment and governance. Watch Duncan’s introduction to his three-part ECOH webinar series and prelude to Webinar 1:  What Housing Does, a Systems Perspective: Housing Outcomes and Canadian Economies.

Housing First policy

ARTICLE

Individual investors more to blame for housing evictions, price escalation than REITs: Pomeroy

CHEC Expert Advisor Steve Pomeroy addresses the many facets of housing financialization going well beyond REITS in our latest perspective.

Fixing Up Housing Policy: From Research to Reality Podcast

PODCAST

Does Evidence Influence Policy?

With Molly Harrington And Norm Helfand

An evidence-based approach to decision-making is often pushed by concerned sectors of society. Yet one has to ask: To what extent does evidence influence public policy?

POCAST

Making Rent Control Work

Prince Edward Island, unlike other provinces, has unit-based rent control, with rent being tied to the units instead of the tenant. However, there is no formal mechanism to know what rent was paid by a previous tenant, despite a provincial bill passed to establish one in 2019.

podcast

LGBTQ2 Vulnerability In Housing

With Kenna McDowell

How do we solve the issue of LGBTQ2 vulnerability in housing? 

Canadian Housing Course

Learn the fundamentals and advance your career in the growing field of Canadian Housing.

Blog Posts

Individual investors more to blame for housing evictions, price escalation than REITs: Pomeroy

Summary of brief submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) regarding the financialization of housing.

Filling the hole in the bucket: Loss of existing affordable rentals massively undermining new affordable supply

At a national level Canada is losing eleven lower rent affordable homes for every one home added (at considerable subsidy cost) under federal and federal-provincial-territorial programs.

Time for the federal government to put its money where its mouth is on affordable housing

With the federal government under pressure to practice austerity with the release of its budget on March 28, now is the time to draw on its existing $4-billion Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) announced in Budget 2022 to address the growing housing affordability issue, without adding new spending.

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