Canada puts more people in each house compared to G7 countries Any builder knows that building a good home must start with a solid foundation. The same is true for good housing policy. Budget 2022 has been tagged as a housing budget, with emphasis on addressing what...
For the first time, in 2020 CMHC added questions to its annual October Rental Market Survey to explore the level of rent arrears, a concern heightened by the COVID pandemic. This new data source reveals a wide range of arrears rates with Windsor recording the highest...
Issue: In late September, CMHC announced a new Rapid Housing Initiative to create 3,000 spaces for homeless persons. This funds new modular construction and acquisition-conversion of non-residential property; but it does not encompass acquisition of existing moderate...
By Steve Pomeroy The challenge: Canada is losing affordable housing faster than we can create it The erosion of “naturally occurring affordable housing” (NOAH) units is the most serious threat to Canada’s supply of affordable housing. Between 2011 and 2016 the...
This research was undertaken in collaboration with Allan Gaudreault and Nicholas Gazzard, for the Canadian Housing Policy Roundtable (CHPR). It describes the key elements of the evolving institutional infrastructure in each province and how this has enabled the design...
In a case of ‘be careful what you ask for,’ Canada’s National Housing Strategy (NHS) delivered on what advocates had been clamouring for – the re-engagement of the federal government in housing and longer-term predictable funding in order to build and stimulate an...
