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Canada’s National Housing Strategy: Is it really addressing homelessness and affordability?

By:Building .caPosted: Nov 19th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

In Canada, just over 10 per cent of households live in housing that is unaffordable, unsuitable or inadequate, and they cannot afford alternative housing in their community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Jacquie Gahagan, Mount Saint[...]

Homes still unaffordable for average households despite fall in prices: reports

By:Building .caPosted: Sep 30th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

OTTAWA – Buying a home has become more unaffordable for Canadians even as housing prices fall, according to new reports from the parliamentary budget officer and RBC. The PBO’s house price assessment, published on Thursday,[...]

Stats Canada says Canada’s homeownership rate fell in latest 2021 census release

By:Building .caPosted: Sep 23rd, 2022In: ConstructionNews

OTTAWA – Canada’s homeownership rate is on the decline, with young adults in particular less likely to own a home in 2021 than they were in 2011, says Statistics Canada. According to the latest census[...]

Roommates, multi generational homes rising amid increasing costs, immigration: census

By:Building .caPosted: Jul 20th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

TORONTO – When Gina Athanasiou’s father died in 2016, she realized her mother, who bounced between Canada and Greece for most of her life, didn’t have a pension large enough to cover the soaring costs[...]

Canadian home buyers face least affordable market in a generation: RBC

By:Building .caPosted: Jun 26th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

RBC’s latest housing affordability report released Thursday reveals that the situation is the worst its been since the early 1990s, and will worsen before it gets better. RBC’s aggregate affordability measure for Canada went up 3.7[...]

Huron County councillors push for expedited housing results

By:Building .caPosted: May 20th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

WINGHAM ADVANCE TIMES HURON COUNTY – Several county councillors spoke up after a presentation by Tim Welch, principal of TWC Consulting Inc, regarding the Huron County Housing Renewal Plan, commenting on how this critical initiative needs to[...]

Housing crisis in Ontario worse than ever, Gen Squeeze says

By:Building .caPosted: May 19th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

CANADA’S NATIONAL OBSERVER House prices and rents in Ontario have become more unaffordable in the past two years than in any other recent two-year period anywhere in the country, according to a new report from[...]

Bruce County launches affordable housing toolkit

By:Building .caPosted: May 17th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

THE WALKERTON HERALD TIMES BRUCE COUNTY – Staff have been working with a consulting firm to develop the affordable housing toolkit. Phase one of the toolkit was launched May 5. It’s a web-based document that[...]

Co-op housing could help solve Canada’s affordability crisis, advocates say

By:Building .caPosted: May 13th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Ayanna Inniss believes the co-op movement could be part of the solution to this country’s housing affordability crisis. The Edmonton-area woman still remembers the “soul destroying” experience of looking for affordable housing 20 years ago,[...]

Housing minister, municipal governments at odds over B.C. housing supply report

By:Building .caPosted: Mar 25th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

VANCOUVER – A municipal government report that says British Columbia is building enough homes to match the province’s population growth has drawn sharp criticism from the housing minister. The Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) report[...]