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Consumers in Ontario and British Columbia increasingly missed payments on mortgages and credit cards in the fourth quarter of 2023, Equifax Canada said. The fourth quarter saw a continuation of what’s been happening for a while now as the impacts of higher interest rates and inflation continue to weigh on …
Read More »Airport train, and housing among Calgary’s funding requests for provincial budget – Calgary
The City of Calgary is asking for around $1.3 billion in new and continued investments in the upcoming provincial budget, but the premier’s warning of spending restraint is raising questions around how much will be fulfilled. Topping the city’s budget wishlist is a $53 million provincial contribution to extend the …
Read More »‘Deceptive’ or ‘awesome’? Ontario’s housing goal including LTC beds faces scrutiny
Ontario’s housing minister is defending his decision to count long-term care beds towards the province’s housing targets, even as data shows some communities added more long-term care beds than new houses in 2023. Housing figures for 2023, shared with Global News by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, show …
Read More »Ford government begins boosting housing numbers with LTC beds, basements
The Ford government has officially started counting long-term care beds and basement units toward its overall goal of building 1.5 million homes by 2031, significantly boosting its housing supply numbers. According to the province’s housing tracker, there were 109,011 “new homes created in Ontario” in 2023 — representing 99 per …
Read More »Doug Ford and Olivia Chow to hold joint housing news conference
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow will hold an event together on Thursday afternoon. The joint press conference is being billed as a “housing progress update” and will also be attended by the province’s housing minister, Paul Calandra. The …
Read More »Ontario ministers referring to ‘attainable’ housing but docs show word has no definition
More than a year after Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet ministers began promising to build more “attainable housing,” internal documents show the government hasn’t worked out what the term actually means. Shortly after taking over as housing minister in September, Paul Calandra was tasked with creating an official meaning …
Read More »Canada’s housing advocate has a roadmap to end homelessness. What is it? – National
The Office of the Federal Housing Advocate (OFHA) is calling on all three levels of government to create a strategy to end chronic homelessness in Canada. Marie-Josée Houle on Tuesday called for an end to forced evictions of encampments and urged “alternatives that are designed following meaningful engagement with encampment …
Read More »Winnipeg Mayor’s State of City Address looks to tackle affordable housing crisis – Winnipeg
Affordable housing is few and far between in Winnipeg, and often called “a crisis.” It’s an issue Mayor Scott Gillingham said he is looking to fast-track in his annual State of the City address before the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. He said he wants to help housing keep up with …
Read More »‘Harder to build’: How the housing crisis wrapped itself around a northern Ontario town
More than 1,000 miles north of the Greater Toronto Area, far away from the Greenbelt scandal and spats over who should pay for refugee shelter spaces, is a community that has been struggling to keep pace as it grows. Despite not sharing the spotlight with cities and towns in southern …
Read More »Urban boundary reversal ‘quadrupled’ Ontario housing crisis, developer report says
The Ford government‘s attempts to free itself from the Greenbelt scandal may have magnified the long-term effects of Ontario’s housing crisis, according to a report from an influential development group. A recent report written for the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) found the Ford government’s decision to cancel …
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