Units Lost: Understanding the erosion of low & intermediate market rent supply
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CHEC research has shown that since 2016, the annual loss rate of affordable housing has been more than double the number of new units added annually through National Housing Strategy funding. Check out our reports below for more information on this alarming issue and its impacts on housing affordability.
Report:
Updating analysis on erosion of lower rent stock from 2021 census
October 2022
By Steve Pomeroy, Industry Professor and Executive Advisor, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative, McMaster University.
Report:
Examining the eroding low rent stock: how is this impacting particular populations including vulnerable households
February 2024
By Steve Pomeroy, Industry Professor, McMaster University, and Executive Advisor, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC). Focus Consulting Inc.
Report:
Filling the hole in the bucket: loss of existing affordable rentals undermining supply
February 2024
By Steve Pomeroy, Industry Professor, McMaster University, and Executive Advisor, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC)
Article:
Updating Analysis on Erosion of Lower Rent Stock from 2021 Census
CHEC-CCRL Perspective, Oct 2022
By Steve Pomeroy, Industry Professor and Executive Advisor, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative, McMaster University.
Article:
Statistics Canada enabled inaction on housing supply/affordability by being decades late reporting inflation
CHEC Perspective, April 2022
By Paul Kershaw
Report:
Definitions of Affordable Housing Across Canada
2022
Prepared by Michelle Verbeek, Chance Gordon and Cynthia Belaskie
Article:
Top 20 recommendations on financialization of rental housing to stem loss of affordable housing
CHEC-CCRL Newsletter, Nov 2023
Article:
Canada’s fragmented approach to housing is impeding its ability to create housing
CHEC-CCRL Perspective, Sept 2023
Article:
Housing experts say Ontario court ruling on encampment evictions won’t solve homelessness
CHEC-CCRL Newsletter, Feb 2023
Article:
More housing research needed to solve crisis in housing supply, units gained/lost and equity
CHEC-CCRL Newsletter, Dec. 2023
Article:
Montreal affordable housing plan flop
CHEC-CCRL Newsletter, Sept. 2023
Webinar:
Home or Commodity? The Transformation of Housing and its Discontents