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....
“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...
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:...
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...
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...
