The Breach | Poilievre’s rhetoric about immigrants causing Canada’s housing crisis doesn’t track

The Maple | Encouraging homeownership instead of economic security through social policy has been a recipe for disaster.

The Maple | Canadian governments have failed to use the tools available to them to build affordable housing and impose substantive rent control measures.

Canadian Dimension | The financialization of housing is a result of policy choices made by successive federal and provincial governments over decades. The Federal Housing Advocate points to three major policy drivers: the retreat of the welfare state in Canada; the removal of rent control and tenant protections; and financial liberalization and deregulation.

Canadian Dimension | To end homelessness we must reclaim housing from the investor class, produce homes as if they were essential goods rather than investment vehicles, and ensure that all Canadians have the resources necessary to lead dignified, comfortable lives. We can do all these things. We can restore housing affordability and end homelessness. The only thing we lack is political will.

Canadian Dimension | We cannot allow ourselves to be misled by property hoarders who want to blame the housing crisis on economically precarious temporary residents while they collect the rent. As Laurence Braun-Woodbury writes, this is not a population crisis; this is a commodity bubble created by investor enthusiasm and avarice.

Some 66 per cent of migrant workers in Canada live with between five and 20 other people, a new study shows, as Ottawa eyes a federal standard for acc...