A Huron County man who often uses shelters to avoid sleeping outside says the Huron Perth Health Care Alliance paid his $241.42 taxi fare to London, Ont., to free up space in a shelter where he’d been staying in Clinton.
The man told CBC News he was sent to London on the promise there would be shelter space for him, which upon arrival turned out to not be the case.
According to a new report, it would take the average individual a jaw-dropping 44 years to save up enough money to afford a home in Toronto without financial help from family
Housing affordability is one of the most critical issues of our time. It is dividing generations, both economically and politically.
If you take a gander at new data from the Consumer Choice Center (CCC), it’s little wonder why housing is the top political issue for millions of young Canadians in poll after poll.
The United States is experiencing a housing crunch, and one of President Donald Trump’s latest moves to address it involves banning large investment firms from purchasing single-family homes.
Canada has also been gripped by a housing affordability crisis in recent years, with soaring rents and home prices. But to what extent are institutional investors driving this trend, and how close is Canada to potentially restricting their ability to purchase homes?
More than 30,000 people using Ontario income assistance programs are finding themselves homeless anyway – a number that has dramatically increased since before the pandemic, according to a new report from a Toronto-based human rights organization.
And those surging homelessness rates are linked to stagnant income assistance as even the cheapest apartments tend to cost more than the entire monthly cheques from one major program, researchers from Maytree found.
Toronto-area new home sales just tanked to their worst year on record.
The situation is ”absolutely dire,” said the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) in a Thursday report, noting the consequences are rippling through Ontario’s economy, which relies heavily on homebuilding for employment, future housing supply, and economic growth.
Just last year the Liberal Party created a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens employed by law breaking construction companies.
The LPC literally rewarded these companies for hiring illegals.
Canada’s housing shortage is no longer a future concern—it’s already here. Despite Ottawa’s decision last October to scale back immigration targets from recent highs, population growth continues to outpace the number of homes being built.
There’s a widening gap between the number of people who need housing and the number of units actually coming online, particularly in the country’s largest cities. The data suggest affordability pressures are unlikely to ease without either a sharp rise in construction or a closer alignment between immigration levels and housing capacity.
Immigration policy in Canada is designed to make the rich richer.
Canadians are increasingly pessimistic about housing, with most saying federal plans will not make homes more affordable or accessible, according to internal polling obtained by Housing Minister Gregor Robertson’s department.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the research found housing costs and shortages are now a dominant source of stress for households, with many believing home ownership is either unattainable or would require taking on crushing levels of debt.
Renters, the report said, are trapped in tight markets marked by low vacancy rates, rising prices and, in some cases, deteriorating living conditions.
Thank the Liberal Party.
In the small, northeastern New Brunswick city of Bathurst, homelessness was not even on the radar a few years ago. Today the city of 15,000 is working on opening a 40-bed homeless shelter.
The quaint southwestern Saskatchewan city of Yorkton recently expanded its new emergency shelter to meet growing demand.
And in the remote British Columbia community of 100 Mile House, the town council just bought a specialized firefighting bush truck, to mitigate the risk of out-of-control blazes from homeless people increasingly setting up camp in the surrounding forest.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants Congress to codify his plan to ban institutional investors like Blackrock from purchasing single-family homes as part of a push to restore affordability to the housing market.
Canada’s housing market is generally more expensive than the U.S. and ranks as one of the least affordable in the G7 when comparing income-to-price ratios.
Would a similar ban in Canada make sense?
You will own nothing and you will be happy … said some guy with a Nazi dad.
Homelessness in rural and northern parts of Ontario is surging and growing faster than any other part of the province, with fewer resources to address the crisis, according to a new report.
The report released Tuesday by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, which represents 444 communities, found that homelessness continues to increase across the province but is particularly acute in northern and rural regions and among Indigenous people.
Patrick Couperthwait was hunkered down inside a makeshift shelter made of tarps, plywood and metal scraps, waiting for outreach workers to come back.
It was freezing cold this early December day, with temperatures dipping below -10 C the night before. His bare fingers were red and cracked, but Couperthwait couldn’t risk leaving to warm up indoors. He needed to stay here — on a roadside patch of grass near Riverdale Park where he’s camped for two years — because outreach workers told him yesterday there might be housing for him. As midday hit, Couperthwait was getting nervous.
The Islamo-Chow Regime does not want to solve the “Homeless crisis” as it raises money funneled to their socialist scams.
“Housing first” is a failed policy that assumes a hard core drug addict or the mentally ill will be able to maintain a residence.
Life doesn’t work that way. I am curious to see if Saskatchewan’s mandatory treatment policy is a success.
Maggie Hildebrand’s first apartment in Toronto had a kitchen, a dining table, a workspace and a bed – all in the same 300-sq-ft room.
It was a decent home at first, close enough to her job downtown and with all the bare necessities for daily living.
But it didn’t take long for the 28-year-old to feel boxed-in. “It was so isolating in that tiny space,” she told the BBC. “It definitely feels like it’s just somewhere to put worker bees during the night.”
Oslo’s Deichman Bjørvika differs from downtown libraries in America by its near-total absence of homelessness.
Deichman Bjørvika, the main library in Oslo, occupies a prominent site next to the opera house and the Munch Museum. Whereas many American downtown libraries favor classical design, Oslo’s is strikingly postmodern, its asymmetrical layout featuring almost no right angles. Inside, the building blends Brutalist monumentality—massive, exposed concrete slabs—with an airiness created by natural light and a soaring central atrium. The collection of more than 450,000 volumes is excellent by my preferred standard: a wealth of older, rebound books that likely haven’t circulated in years. It’s ideal for browsing. The library organizes most of its books and private study spaces around three multistory columns rising through its center, ensuring functionality while preserving unobstructed views of the Oslo Fjord.
In just one month, Food Banks Canada reported nearly 2.2 million visits across the country, which they say is the highest number recorded in history.
This data was recorded from March this year, doubling the monthly usage of food banks in Canada six years earlier.
This troubling number makes you wonder — why the huge spike?
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Canadians spend between 35 and 50 per cent of their monthly income on housing and utilities, according to the government of Canada. For many, keeping up with the bills is not easy.
Ali Jafri’s rent is due on Monday, and he’s not sure he will be able to pay it.
“(The) 15th of the month is just a few days away and I am in a difficult spot right now,” the Toronto father told CTV News. Jafri has a job, a child and lives in a tight-knit community in downtown Toronto, but with the cost of living stubbornly high, he says he’s being squeezed.
Ali is part of the problem but our media love to add insult to injury.
