by Kimberly Langille | May 8, 2024 | Featured Research
Housing advocates and experts surveyed for their thoughts on the “Housing Budget” announced by the federal government April 12 mostly agreed this budget is good for housing, but does little for homelessness. Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC) Adjunct...
by Kimberly Langille | Apr 9, 2024 | Featured Research
“Homes built by Wartime Housing Limited in Peterborough, 1943,” Photographer J.B. Scott, Library and Archives Canada, PA-145331 Results of consultation and next steps expected this spring. The federal government has received more than 75 written submissions from...
by Kimberly Langille | Apr 5, 2024 | Featured Research
Where can researchers find data on housing topics in Canada such as the amount of social housing, affordability, or the reasons for evictions? The answer is the Canadian Housing Survey (CHS), Stephanie Shewchuk, a Senior Specialist in the Research Division at Canada...
by Kimberly Langille | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Research
Black people are over-represented in homeless counts in Canada but the details of who, where and why are clouded by a lack of data, a webinar audience was told. The webinar was presented Feb. 1 by the Expert Community On Housing (ECOH) and was entitled: Filling in the...
by Admin | Feb 12, 2024 | Featured Research
By the end of January, the federal government had announced about $3 billion in grants from its $4 billion Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) to fuel housing construction. Yet, no one should expect to see an effect on supply anytime soon, says CHEC’s Industry Professor....
by Admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Featured Research
Read the full report Politicians and the public alike hit the panic button when CMHC said in 2022 that 5.8 million new homes were needed by 2030 to bring the price of housing back to affordable levels. CMHC projected that, if current rates of new construction...
