“Homelessness & Affordability Crisis” – Page 25

‘Demographic Shock’ of Immigration Intensifying Affordable House Crisis: Bank

The “demographic shock” of mass immigration is aggravating Canada’s affordable housing problem, the National Bank of Canada says in a new report.

Canada’s working-age population—people aged 15 and older—increased by more than 100,000 in April alone, bringing total population growth to more than 410,000 in the first four months of 2024, according to the May 15 “Hot Charts“ published by National Bank Financial, Inc. (NBF), a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, Canada’s sixth-largest commercial bank.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2024May 18, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why Affordable Housing Policies Have Failed

Canada now plays host to 807,750 foreign students, 770,000 temporary workers, and 500,000 new immigrants being admitted annually. As a group, they represent mass immigration. Most of these people settle and are concentrated in a few parts of Canada, nowhere more so than southern Ontario and southern BC. Their numbers are rising annually and the 500,000 new immigrants drove our population over 40 million this year. We have the fastest growing population in the Group of Seven (G7). Since 2002, immigration, excluding students and temporary workers, has totalled 5.9 million.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2024May 17, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Study finds only 10% of renters say Liberals housing measures would have a positive impact on housing crisis

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Housing Minister Sean Fraser took their travelling housing show on the road across Canada this spring, promising, with Budget 2024, to throw billions of taxpayers’ dollars at a housing crisis they created.

Trudeau’s Liberal government has targetted immigration to Canada at about 500,000 per year, which does not include temporary workers or those on student visas, which takes the number above the one million mark, creating a severe housing crisis, reducing homeownership rates and pushing people into renting.

by Blazingcatfur•May 12, 2024May 11, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau’s Mass Migrant Invasion: Canadian landlords are asking 9.3 per cent more for rent than last year on average according to a just-released report

A new report says the average asking rent for a home in Canada in April was up 9.3 per cent compared with a year ago, while a slight month-over-month increase was also recorded for the first time since January.

The report by Urbanation and Rentals.ca, which analyzes monthly listings from the latter’s network, says the average asking rent for all home types was $2,188 last month.

by Blazingcatfur•May 11, 2024May 10, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

These landlords agreed to help with homelessness, but end up with trashed properties

Mounds of mouldy garbage, cigarette butts, discarded needles, used tampons, vomit and rat feces litter what was once a clean, empty one-bedroom apartment in Ottawa’s ByWard Market.

The unit above looks similar, with broken windows and walls covered in bright red spray paint.

In the building next door, kitchen tiles peel up following a flood, and the smell upon entering is overwhelming.

Homelessness will not be solved by social justice bureaucrats.

by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2024May 9, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Trudeau promise of 3.87 million homes is next to impossible

The centrepiece of last week’s federal budget was the Trudeau government’s plan to build 3.87 million homes by 2031. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. estimates that 1.87 million homes are already going to be built – and Ottawa aims to more than double that pace.

How likely is that? Not very.

by Blazingcatfur•April 29, 2024April 29, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Home ownership is only for the rich in Trudeau’s Canada say 80% in new poll

Is home ownership only for the rich now? 80% say yes in new poll

The cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians is only getting more bleak, according to new polling that shows everything from buying a first home to affording groceries has gotten harder in the past year.

On Friday, Ipsos polling conducted exclusively for Global News showed that four in five Canadians (80 per cent) now feel that owning a home is only for the rich. That’s 11 points higher than a similar poll from just over a year ago in March 2023.

by Blazingcatfur•April 26, 2024April 26, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Freeland Doesn’t Care Housing Plan Unrealistic or Unsafe

Freeland Dismisses Concerns Housing Plan Unrealistic or Unsafe

As the federal government looks to spend billions to increase the supply of housing across the country, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland dismissed concerns that the ambitious building program was unrealistic or unsafe.

Ms. Freeland spoke to reporters in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, on April 23 and was asked about how the federal government expects to build 10,000 homes in Newfoundland and Labrador per year when the province’s home builders association has claimed that in the best year of construction, just 3,300 homes were built.

by Blazingcatfur•April 25, 2024April 24, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Town at the Center of a Supreme Court Battle Over Homelessness

A lawsuit by a group of homeless residents of a small Oregon town could reshape the way cities across the country deal with homelessness.

Inside a warming shelter, Laura Gutowski detailed how her life had changed since she became homeless two and a half years ago in Grants Pass, a former timber hub in the foothills of southern Oregon.

Her husband’s death left her without steady income. She lived in a sedan, and then in a tent, in sight of the elementary school where her son was once a student. She constantly scrambled to move her belongings to avoid racking up more fines from the police.

“I never expected it to come to this,” Ms. Gutowski, 55, said. She is one of several hundred homeless people in this city of about 40,000 that is at the center of a major case before the Supreme Court on Monday with broad ramifications for the nationwide struggle with homelessness.

by Blazingcatfur•April 21, 2024April 21, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", USA

Inside the Los Angeles highway houses

Caesar Duarte didn’t flinch as an Amazon truck barreled down the busy 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, missing his makeshift home by just a few feet.

The only thing that stood between Duarte’s outdoor kitchen and speeding vehicles was a three-foot retaining wall and metal fencing.

The 44-year-old mechanic and house painter said he has learned to deal with the danger and noise since he erected his homestead by the freeway about four years ago.

by Blazingcatfur•April 21, 2024April 20, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise", USA

As West Coast Cities Descend Into Squalor, Supreme Court Will Weigh Whether Homeless Tents Can Be Removed

Since 2018, a federal appeals court has prevented West Coast cities from arresting homeless people for camping on public land in the absence of available shelter beds — ruling that doing so is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.

My theory: The “homeless crisis” is a form of blockbusting but done on a city-wide scale, or in Canada’s case on a nation wide scale.

Portlandia …

He then started screaming but after giving him a smoke he calmed down. I asked how often pedestrians walked past him. Hardly ever he said. Considering this is the only way to safely cross the street this is a lawsuit waiting to happen if a pedestrian instead pic.twitter.com/2KcBZQkAjl

— Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 (@kevinvdahlgren) April 17, 2024

by Blazingcatfur•April 20, 2024April 20, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", USA

Housing plans’ impact on Canada’s fertility rate would strain economy, increase social tensions

The federal government’s new budget is largely dedicated to building more homes, faster, so that young workers can afford to own one. The Conservative housing plan claims to do the same, only better.

There is one problem: These plans would further force down Canada’s fertility rate, straining our economy and increasing social tensions.

by Blazingcatfur•April 19, 2024April 19, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Fury at $113,000 price of San Francisco’s new homeless cabins, which won’t make a dent in the crisis

San Francisco residents are balking at the sky-high cost of the city’s new homeless cabins.

A complex of 60 ‘tiny homes’ for unhoused Californians each cost taxpayers an eye-popping $113,000.

That’s several times higher than the price of similar cabins in nearby Oakland and San Jose.

by Blazingcatfur•April 19, 2024April 18, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise"

‘We thrived’: Nova Scotians who wintered in RVs call for permanent setup

Some people said it couldn’t be done. But after spending the winter warm and dry in her insulated RV, Carrie Steeves feels triumphant.

“It feels good that it was successful,” Steeves said in a recent interview. “It feels good that so many people told me that we couldn’t do it and that it was not doable to live in a camper for the winter, and I knew that it could be done.

“We survived it. Not only did we survive it, we thrived.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2024April 16, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada