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Manitoba housing needs and rental housing data 2025-2026
This report provides extensive data to understand housing need and the affordability of rental housing in Manitoba for lower income households.
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The 2026 Ontario budget neglects core provincial responsibilities
The 2026 budget fails to address the core responsibilities of provincial governments.
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Achieving the right to housing: Lessons for Manitoba from Finland
You can’t have Housing First without having Housing First — but you need a whole lot more.
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Big rent hikes — a made-in-Manitoba problem
Premier Wab Kinew began 2026 by capping the price of milk in a bid to make life more affordable for Manitobans.
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Nova Scotia should license landlords
A version of this article was previously published in the Chronicle Herald on February 14, 2026.
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The numbers don’t lie: The housing crisis is not caused by a supply shortage
Financialization, not demographics, caused the cost of housing to explode
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Anatomy of a housing downturn: What’s happening in BC and what’s next?
For more than a decade, housing has dominated BC’s public conversation due to surging prices for home ownership and tight rental housing markets. Now, real…
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Tackling Today’s Polycrisis: Beyond a Balanced Budget in Manitoba
Thursday Feb 5th 11:30 – 1:00 pm Union Centre, 275 Broadway, Winnipeg
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Why private investment doesn’t solve housing issues
ON Nov. 22, National Housing Day, the Winnipeg Free Press featured a story — ‘She’s that kind of unicorn’ — about the Business Council of Manitoba’s Collaborative Housing Alliance.
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Tenants are suffering: An urgent call to strengthen Nova Scotia’s rent subsidy program
Since 2021, I have been collecting research data on rent supplements (the Canada Housing Benefit) in Nova Scotia. This includes in-depth interviews with tenants who…
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Alternative federal budget 2026: Affordable housing and homelessness
What the Canadian government should do on affordable housing and homelessness. Because true independence needs a new economic model.
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