Home ownership in Canada is at its most unaffordable level since the “housing recession” of 1990. That’s the grim news today from RBC Economics and its latest quarterly housing affordability report. Outside of Alberta, housing affordability has deteriorated in every market and for every type of housing. Most low, moderate and many middle-income Canadians live […]
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UN expected to criticize Canada's housing record
Canada's is expected to get a much-deserved censure from The United Nation's Human Rights Council, the highest human rights body within the UN, as it debates Canada's housing record on Wednesday, March 12. The debate begins with a presentation from Miloon Kothari, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, who made a […]
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Federal budget 2008: Billion-dollar housing / homelessness gap looming
Wellesley Institute federal budget scan: Healthy corporate profits – healthy communities??? Minister Flaherty federal budget fails to offer funding; Billion-dollar housing / homelessness gap is looming Just five days before federal Finance Minister James Flaherty rose in the House of Commons earlier today (February 26) to deliver the 2008 national budget,
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Imagine a healthy and prosperous Canada for all!
Imagine a healthy and prosperous Canada, where no one is left behind. What are the practical, effective and fiscally-responsible steps that will get us there? Find the answers in the 2008 Alternative Federal Budget, an initiative of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that includes a contribution from the Wellesley Institute. The federal budget delivered […]
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Private Personal Care: Homes And The ‘Hardest To House’
Project aim was to survey the housing history of tenants in private boarding homes and examine the levels of care and support in these homes. The starting hypothesis, based on anecdotal evidence was that private boarding homes catered to a disproportionately higher percentage of hard-to-house individuals and that the housing history of these tenants would show […]
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Wellesley Institute’s Federal Pre-Budget Backgrounder
Review of three key federal programs affecting housing and homelessness with a focus on key issues and solutions.
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Minister Solberg boycotts meeting, then promises to meet
Federal housing minister Monte Solberg boycotts housing summit, Then promises to meet provincial counterparts within two months (February 6, 2008): Provincial and territorial housing ministers met today (Wednesday) in Vancouver and, for the first time in almost a decade, the federal housing minister refused to participate. However, during the meeting, federal minister Monte Solberg told […]
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National Housing Report Card 2008 reveals government funding failures
National Housing Report Card 2008 On the eve of the first provincial-territorial housing ministers’ summit in almost two and one-half years, a new report card from the Wellesley Institute reveals that the federal government and eight of the thirteen provinces and territories have failed to meet the commitments for new housing funding that they […]
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The Wellesley Institute’s 2008 National Housing Report Card
The 2008 National Housing Report Card reveals that the federal government and eight of the thirteen provinces and territories have failed to meet the commitments for new housing funding that they made in November of 2001.
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What starts in the housing sector doesn’t stay in the housing sector
Most people are looking with great anxiety at the economic downturn south of the border and wondering if Toronto, Ontario and Canada will be dragged down as well.
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