Canada’s National Housing Strategy: Is it really addressing homelessness and affordability?
Posted: Nov 19th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsIn 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[...]
Read More about Canada’s National Housing Strategy: Is it really addressing homelessness and affordability?Homes still unaffordable for average households despite fall in prices: reports
Posted: Sep 30th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsOTTAWA – 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,[...]
Read More about Homes still unaffordable for average households despite fall in prices: reportsStats Canada says Canada’s homeownership rate fell in latest 2021 census release
Posted: Sep 23rd, 2022In: ConstructionNewsOTTAWA – 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[...]
Read More about Stats Canada says Canada’s homeownership rate fell in latest 2021 census releaseRoommates, multi generational homes rising amid increasing costs, immigration: census
Posted: Jul 20th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO – 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[...]
Read More about Roommates, multi generational homes rising amid increasing costs, immigration: censusCanadian home buyers face least affordable market in a generation: RBC
Posted: Jun 26th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsRBC’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[...]
Read More about Canadian home buyers face least affordable market in a generation: RBCHuron County councillors push for expedited housing results
Posted: May 20th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsWINGHAM 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[...]
Read More about Huron County councillors push for expedited housing resultsHousing crisis in Ontario worse than ever, Gen Squeeze says
Posted: May 19th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsCANADA’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[...]
Read More about Housing crisis in Ontario worse than ever, Gen Squeeze saysBruce County launches affordable housing toolkit
Posted: May 17th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTHE 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[...]
Read More about Bruce County launches affordable housing toolkitCo-op housing could help solve Canada’s affordability crisis, advocates say
Posted: May 13th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsAyanna 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,[...]
Read More about Co-op housing could help solve Canada’s affordability crisis, advocates sayHousing minister, municipal governments at odds over B.C. housing supply report
Posted: Mar 25th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsVANCOUVER – 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[...]
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