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Affordable Rental Housing Estimator Tool
HIP.CHEC's NEW Affordable Rental Housing Estimator Tool is LIVE
The amount of private rental in Canada is largely unknown. To solve this, CHEC has created an innovative tool that can estimate what housing is needed in particular areas and where people can afford to live in Canada.
Featured Research
Homelessness disproportionately impacts racialized communities
Black people are over-represented in homeless counts in Canada but the details of who, where and why are clouded by a lack of data, a webinar audience was told.
Housing Accelerator Fund: No supply surge soon
By the end of January, the federal government had announced about $3 billion in grants from its $4 billion Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) to fuel housing construction.
Rethinking Canada’s Target for 5.8 Million New Homes by 2030
Politicians and the public alike hit the panic button when CMHC said in 2022 that 5.8 million new homes were needed by 2030 to bring the price of housing back to affordable levels.
Indigenous Housing
CHEC in the News
Black History Month: Financialized landlords target racialized communities
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.
Rural homelessness is often “invisible”, under-acknowledged, and undercounted
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.
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In Case You Missed It
Filling housing’s “missing middle”
Researchers in the Balanced Supply of Housing Node are working on several projects to make it easier to build housing suitable for the so-called “Missing Middle.”
“It’s the difference between barely making it and not making it at all”: Housing as a human right, neoliberalism, and the new Canada Housing Benefit
Research by the People, Places, Policies and Prospects node has found a clear misalignment in Nova Scotia between a rights-based approach to housing and the experiences of tenants in receipt of demand-side housing assistance, particularly those receiving the new Canada Housing Benefit (CHB) allowance.
Time for the federal government to put its money where its mouth is on affordable housing
With the federal government under pressure to practice austerity with the release of its budget on March 28, now is the time to draw on its existing $4-billion Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) announced in Budget 2022 to address the growing housing affordability issue, without adding new spending.
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CHEC Director Dr. Jim Dunn & Exec Advisor Steve Pomeroy were with Hamilton Community Foundation in Montreal this week learning innovative approaches for creating/retaining #affordablehousing #housing @CMHC_ca @UrbanHealthProf @CHRA_ACHRU @SeanFraserMP
Meet Sally, an inspiring interviewee in one of our "Aging in the Right Place" projects.
Despite housing precarity, Sally’s story is a testament to holistic aging – where well-being encompasses all aspects of life, not solely physical space. 🏠
https://bit.ly/3KhLqAr
HOME-RL Master's Student Sarah LeBlanc is seeking participants for her research study. Are you an advocate who works with folks who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence in NB? Give her a shout!! @HOME_RL_UNB @tobinatrix
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