Organizing Tenant Power Across Toronto
The Toronto Tenant Union is organizing across movements to build power and fight for renters rights in the city, and building a model for organizing across Canada.
Housing
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Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas Xuereb
Silas Xuereb offers a rundown on how the Canadian government is deepening the housing crisis through poorly designed tax systems and unchecked regulation of real estate investment.
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A Progressive Toolkit to Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis
Housing expert Carolyn Whitzman chronicles the shifts in government housing policy over recent decades and shows what needs to be done to make housing accessible for all Canadians.
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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers
According to the data, more and more new housing is being purchased without the intention of being the home that the buyer lives in.
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Addressing the Rise of Investor Ownership of Housing, Part 1: Assessing the Scale and Impacts across Canada
Ownership of housing is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of wealthy Canadians, fostering a worsening status quo for everyone else.
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Competition and Co-ops: MP Dan Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act
What will this amended piece of legislation do for ordinary, working-class Canadians to make groceries affordable again, and does it go far enough? How has market concentration contributed to higher grocery receipts? Why should incentives for building more co-op housing be included in the final version of the bill?
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What’s Wrong with the Fraser Institute Report on Building Energy Efficiency
With extreme heat, storms, forest fires, and floods Canadians should now expect their buildings to protect them from such weather extremes and to not add to the climate problem.
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What is “affordability” to Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force?
At minimum a standard definition of affordability ought to be developed to determine how to best rectify Ontario’s housing crisis.
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Community land trusts: enabling Black-led housing solutions
From affordable home-ownership programs and housing for intergenerational households, to culturally informed supportive housing for Black people leaving homelessness and the gentrification antidote that community land trusts can be, People of African descent in Canada must be afforded the opportunities and resources to participate in the decisions that impact our lives and to build the…
