“Homelessness & Affordability Crisis”

MORGAN: We can’t afford government-built housing

Mark Carney’s $13 billion housing initiative highlights everything that’s wrong with the Canadian system and why things won’t be improving under the Carney government.

To begin with, it proves Carney’s claims that he will streamline the government and reduce the bureaucracy to be hollow. The Trudeau government nearly doubled the civil service over 10 years. Carney has implied the growth was unsustainable and that he will get the bloat under control. Then he announces a new agency which will employ hundreds if not thousands of new civil servants. Not one of which will swing a hammer to help build a home.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GUNTER: Federal housing program reveals Carney government’s magical thinking

Last weekend, Ana Bailão, a longtime member of Toronto city council, took up her job as the first CEO of Build Canada Homes (BCH), the Carney government’s new bureaucracy tasked with doubling the number of homes built annually across the country.

Put aside for a minute the wisdom of appointing a longtime councillor from the city with the second-highest housing prices in the country, and forget for a second that Bailão chaired Toronto city council’s affordable housing committee during the years in which Toronto witnessed some of its worst inflation in housing prices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Carney announces launch of new housing agency, earmarks funding for new projects

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Sunday afternoon the launch of Build Canada Homes, the federal government’s new agency that will oversee federal housing programs.

The agency was part of the Liberals’ election promise to double housing construction.

The government is touting Build Canada Homes as a centralized agency to oversee new affordable housing programs initiated at the federal level.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Toronto is on pace for its lowest annual housing starts in 30 years, CMHC says

Toronto’s homebuilding activity in the first half of 2025 was the lowest on a per-capita basis since 1996, according to a new report from Canada’s national housing agency.

The drop was driven by a 60 per cent year-over-year decrease in condo starts, the new “Housing Supply Report” by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) found.

”A pullback in investor demand during the first half of 2025 reduced project feasibility, leading to cancellations, delays, and a sharp drop in construction,” the report said, adding that many industry actors are calling for reduced construction costs and development charges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Barrie, Ont. mayor declares city-wide state of emergency

Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall says enough is enough.

On Tuesday morning, the mayor declared a state of emergency aimed at addressing encampments across the city, pointing to growing safety concerns, damage to municipal property, and the ongoing toll of the opioid crisis.

“Barrie residents have had enough,” Nuttall stated, adding the city would support those seeking help but would not allow encampments to continue on public property. The mayor said the City would “reclaim” its streets, park and public spaces.

The rot is so deep, so widespread that no corner of our world is left untouched.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Canada on verge of housing crisis due to Liberal inaction, Poilievre warns

OTTAWA — Government inaction on housing is leading Canada towards an unprecedented crisis, Canada’s Opposition leader warns.

Speaking Tuesday from a residential construction site in Brampton, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said inaction by the Mark Carney Liberals on homebuilding is sparking an unrecoverable cycle of layoffs, unemployment and withering-away of skilled trades — leaving Canada with a devastating shortage of skilled workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Toronto real estate: This is how much you need to make to afford a one-bedroom apartment

A new report is sounding the alarm on unaffordable rent in Toronto, pointing out that despite a softening of prices in the rental market, one- and two-bedroom apartments remain out of reach for many workers.

The report, Making Rent: The CCPA’s rental wage update 2024, was released Thursday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It looks at the “rental wage”—the hourly wage needed to afford rent while working a standard 40-hour week and spending 30 per cent of income on housing—for one- and two-bedroom units in 62 Canadian cities.

It found that Toronto and Vancouver top the list when it comes to unaffordable rental housing.

Someone working full time would need to make almost $38 an hour in order to afford a one-bedroom apartment in those cities. That works out to an annual salary of around $78,000.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

In Toronto, cheering when homeowners sell at a loss has now become a spectator sport. Is that a bad thing?

The Etobicoke red brick detached home was on the market for 40 days this summer.

After multiple price adjustments, the three-bedroom, two-bath finally went for $1.545 million, over half-a-million less than when it was last sold, near the height of the Toronto real-estate market in spring 2002.

The reaction? “Excellent.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Mark Carney joins in a shameful Canadian tradition

When Mayor Olivia Chow recently revealed that the federal government is preparing to shortchange Toronto on funding to provide shelter for refugees — to the tune of more than $100 million this year — many of us likely felt a sense of déjà vu.

Didn’t we go through this with the last guy? As the number of refugees in the shelter system ballooned under former prime minister Justin Trudeau (from 530 per night in 2021 to more than 5,000 per night in 2025), the feds hemmed and hawed and tried to pass the buck while refugees slept on sidewalks and Toronto’s established homeless population was squeezed into tent cities. Chow’s budget chief, Shelley Carroll, even threatened a civic Trudeau Tax Levy. Finally, in 2024, Trudeau came around.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Carney government has two duties to younger Canadians, and one is to offer real hope

TORONTO—The Carney government has big plans for a new and, it says, a more prosperous Canadian economy—but much of what it hopes to accomplish will take years before we see a material difference. In the meantime, support for big change may whither unless immediate threats are not addressed.

Two big challenges require careful monitoring. One is the rise of unemployment and the fall in opportunities for younger Canadians. The other is the huge volume of household mortgages that must be renewed this year or next, with higher interest rates and hence higher repayment levels, and at a time when the economy faces the prospect of higher unemployment and weaker wage gains to offset higher mortgage payments. Young home-owners who were first-time buyers at the height of the real estate bubble when mortgage rates were especially low are also especially vulnerable.

Carney won’t do squat. Mass immigration will leave us all impoverished and that’s what he and his cronies want – easy pickings.

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

Canada on track to build far fewer homes than needed to meet housing gap

While Canada is on track to build 2.5 million new homes by 2035, it will not be nearly enough to close the housing gap and meet demand, a new report by the Parliamentary Budget Office on Tuesday said.

According to PBO’s projections, those 2.5 million new homes will still be 690,000 homes short of the 3.2 million new homes that Canada would need to meet its housing demand over the next 10 years.

We need more unskilled labour from culturally incompatible 3rd World crap holes to solve the housing crisis!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Canada’s housing crisis stirs revealing flights of fiction and fantasy

Douglas Todd: The country’s housing emergency is so powerful, distorted and puzzling that many are prone to say, “You couldn’t make this up.” But some B.C. writers are doing just that, through intrepid works of fiction.

An untold number of works have been written about Canada’s housing crisis, especially regarding the Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto regions.

A flood of media articles, industry reports, scholarly analyses and books continue to dig into the impact on housing of foreign capital, construction costs, zoning bylaws, the profit motive, government policy and more.

Now we’re seeing a new kind of exploration of the problem — in fiction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Half of young Canadians spending more than 50% of earnings on rent

Roughly half of young renters and a third of tenants at all ages are spending the majority of their after-tax income on rent, according to a new report.

Experts say the survey, which was published by Rentals.ca this week, shows that the adage of limiting your rental expenses to one-third of your income is simply no longer possible for many Canadians – a situation that could threaten the ability of renters to adequately save for retirement.

I find it sickening that the Globe which advocates for continued mass immigration pretends to give a damn about anyone squeezed out of housing by corporate Canada’s imported scabs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government