If the federal government’s recent economic update regarding housing was a term paper, CHEC’s senior academic researchers would barely give it a passing grade.And there would be a comment at the bottom of the paper saying something like: “You have great potential,...
For over 40 years, Steve Pomeroy has been teaching, advising and consulting on Housing and Homelessness across Canada. He joins the On the Way Home podcast to drop incredible insights on how we got into this crisis and paths forward out of it. ...
Researchers represented by the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC) played a major role in the recent parliamentary committee report on the financialization of housing.Parliament’s Standing Committee On Human Resources, Skills and Social...
Question: What’s the quickest way to get new housing?Answer: Make better use of what’s already built.And if you can help older Canadians stay in their homes longer at the same time, all the better.That was the philosophy behind the creation of SpacesShared.ca, a new...
Before wildfires ravaged the countryside this summer, throwing communication and transportation into chaos, Canada’s north was already a housing catastrophe.And now it’s even worse.“You have a housing landscape that hasn’t been sufficient and hasn’t met...
If you live in a rental apartment building, form a tenant association as soon as possible. That’s the advice of Emily Power who, along with her neighbours, formed a tenant association in order to buy a 21-unit, three-storey, brick apartment building on Caroline St. S....
