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The Nova Scotia government must commit to housing as a human right
One of the critical causes of homelessness and the lack of affordable housing is government’s lack of commitment to protecting and advancing housing as a…
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Fast Facts: Lions Place Housing Crisis
What the Manitoba Government can and must do Since learning on July 26, 2022 that their home would soon be listed on the private market,…
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Predatory lending and housing insecurity, an obvious link worth stressing
There is so much talk about housing insecurity in this country. Yet governments allow payday lenders to set up shop in neighbourhoods where high rents perpetuate financial insecurity.
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Five reasons supply matters to the housing crisis
VANCOUVER — As municipal and provincial leaders gather for the Union of BC Municipalities convention this week, housing affordability is a key issue on the…
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Hate the high cost of rent? Blame the 1990s.
Bewildered by the high cost of housing? Wondering how we got to this place in Canada? To understand why we’re here now, we need to look back thirty years to policy decisions being made in the early 1990s.
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The financialization of rental housing in Canada
Canada is experiencing a permanent rental housing affordability crisis, which has only intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic began. At the same time, we’re seeing a greater consolidation of rental housing apartments by financial firms, accelerating the “financialization of rental housing,” a trend underway in Canada since the 1990s.
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Ontario election: What’s in it for people who rent?
A look at what the provincial party platforms do for renters
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Fast Facts: Low-cost rental housing in Winnipeg
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 27, 2022
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Budget 2022: Some progress, but no need for panic at the country club
Our analysis of the 2022 federal budget
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Federal Budget 2022: What we’re watching for
This budget could herald the beginning of a Pearsonian period of progressive policy making
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Homelessness during a pandemic
Learning lessons for disaster preparedness in Nova Scotia Download 958.15 KB20 pages Authored by a team of researchers out of Dalhousie University, University of Toronto…
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Homelessness during a pandemic: Learning lessons for disaster preparedness in Nova Scotia
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax, NS – Today, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia released the report, Homelessness during a pandemic:…
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