by Admin | Jan 23, 2024 | In the News
A provincial vacancy control policy would eliminate the economic incentive to end tenancies, and virtually end predatory eviction across the province, CHEC researcher Melissa Goldstein writes....
by Admin | Jan 22, 2024 | In the News
“They’ve decentralized this whole thing, and it’s a complete dog’s breakfast,” Steve Pomeroy, a professor at McMaster University’s Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative, said, speaking on the difficulty of finding out what each municipality is doing with the...
by Admin | Dec 12, 2023 | In the News
For every affordable housing unit built in Ottawa, 31 are being lost due to rising units, renovations and demolition, a recent study has found....
by Admin | Oct 23, 2023 | In the News
CBC, Sept 28, 2023 Catherine Leviten-Reid, an associate professor at Cape Breton University who has researched similar loan agreements in the United States, says the evidence suggests for-profit developers will raise rents to market value. Read:...
by Admin | Oct 23, 2023 | In the News
The Tyee.ca, Oct 3, 2023 A complex experiment is saving co-ops and developing homes to be affordable. Permanently. Penny Gurstein, a professor emeritus of planning at the University of British Columbia, talks about the community land trust model, a non-profit that...
by Admin | Apr 27, 2023 | In the News
The Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) project has been officially launched on its journey to provide data-based solutions to Canada’s housing crisis.The project, funded by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), provides a standardized, replicable and...