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A provincial vacancy control policy would eliminate the economic incentive to end tenancies, and virtually end predatory eviction across the province.

“They’ve decentralized this whole thing, and it’s a complete dog’s breakfast,” Steve Pomeroy said, speaking of the difficulty of finding out what each municipality is doing with the benefit.

For every affordable housing unit built in Ottawa, 31 are being lost due to rising units, renovations and demolition, a recent study has found.

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Penny Gurstein, a professor emeritus of planning at the University of British Columbia, talks about the community land trust model, a non-profit that provides affordable housing in a variety of ways.

The Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) project has been officially launched on its journey to provide data-based solutions to Canada’s housing crisis.

Financialized landlords, like Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), were responsible for 65 per cent of the real estate transactions involving multi-family units in Toronto from January 1995 through to December 2022, according to new data revealed by Toronto Metropolitan University Prof. Nemoy Lewis.

When most people think of homelessness, they see someone in a doorway off a busy city street or curled up over the ventilation grate above a subway.