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Federal Housing Advocate Critical of Profit-Driven Housing Market, Calls for Regulation

Canada’s federal housing advocate told a House of Commons committee on May 9 that the profit-driven housing market is “harming people” and should be regulated. She said that only regulations will lower prices and that the market-driven housing industry is not working well.

Marie-Josée Houle, who was appointed in February 2022 to the position under the National Housing Strategy Act, said her job is to be a “watchdog for housing and homelessness in Canada.”

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