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Jim Dunn Interview: GST rebate on new homes
Jim Dunn, interview on Newstalk 1010 Toronto with Jim Richards re: Pierre Poilievre proposal on GST rebate on new homes up to $1 million.
Project launch: Transforming the Housing System in Scotland
The David Hume Institute launched new programme of work on Thursday 19th September with Professor Duncan Maclennan to look at the actions needed to transform the housing system in Scotland. The work...
The 3rd Regional Housing Forum 2024
CHEC Director Prof. Jim Dunn was a featured speaker on a panel at a regional housing conference in Mexico on July 25. Hear some of Jim’s takeaways about how nations in the southern hemisphere are...
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Study reveals stark loss of affordable housing in Ottawa
For every affordable housing unit built in Ottawa, 31 are being lost due to rising units, renovations and demolition, a recent study has found.
Why N.S. could be losing some of the affordable housing it’s funded
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/could-lose-affordable-housing-units-funded-last-16-years-1.6978404
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Parliamentary committee makes financialization recommendations: CHEC-CHRN experts highlighted
Researchers represented by the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC) played a major role in the recent parliamentary committee report on the financialization of housing.
Home sharing: a win-win for students and older adults
Home sharing is a quick way to address housing shortages, particularly for vulnerable groups like international students and low-income earners who look for similar rental accommodation.
North’s housing crisis set ablaze by wildfires
Before wildfires ravaged the countryside this summer, throwing communication and transportation into chaos, Canada’s north was already a housing catastrophe.
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If you’re an Albertan, or a Canadian, and read nothing else, fine. Just read this.
Goodness me. Every word.
Canada’s housing bubble was not built on fundamentals. It was built on a demographic assumption that is now failing.
From 1900 to 1970, Canada’s population grew at a near-stable exponential rate.
After 1970, the country increasingly relied on immigration, credit expansion, and
Great chart. Interestingly it shows some improvements (from a horrible base) in rent burden in the lowest deciles. More generally, the 30% benchmark ignores the magnitude of post-shelter residual income left over for subsistence, consumption. It's very low for the lowest deciles.
@mihirzaveri @nytimes 30% is not the right measure of housing burden—and not because it understates the degree that are burdened—but because it's what the median household has spent on income over centuries, across countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/headway/rent-burden-income-affordability.html
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