Solving Canada’s housing crisis starts with a reality check
Would-be first-time buyers are stuck between choosing ‘too small’ or ‘too expensive.’ A vibrant housing system needs to include options and opportunity across its entire continuum.
Housing: Modular and Affordable
Building codes are undermining the promise of modular housing
The residential construction sector can’t use new technologies like modular housing while operating in a fragmented, constantly shifting regulatory environment.
Are programs in search of a policy or a Canadian housing system?
Canada’s housing crisis did not emerge overnight, and it will not be solved by any single initiative.
Housing Minister Robertson ‘well regarded’ for municipal background, but needs a vision for housing, say sector experts
Canada is still nowhere near the level needed to make housing affordable for the middle class, and despite Robertson’s municipal bonafides, the federal plan is still not well defined, say observers and critics.
Nuancing our understanding of Canada’s housing affordability crisis
Treating the housing crisis as singular supply issue risks missing both the problem and the solution.
This one policy could allow Canada to dramatically reduce land costs for affordable housing
An Affordable Housing Gifts program would remove barriers to companies and individuals looking to donate land to qualified Community Land Trusts.
Affordable housing is slipping away. Here’s how we get it back
We can meet housing challenges, but only if every order of government and other key stakeholders work together with purpose and urgency.
Build Canada Homes is poised to make a generational investment in non-market and public housing—but will it?
BCH’s planned 4,000 units over six sites is a good start, but falls well short of what’s needed.
A home is a human right: why inclusion must be built in
When the primary goal becomes building as many units as possible, as quickly as possible, the needs and rights of marginalized communities can be overlooked.
