Nearly 40% Of MPs Are Invested In Real Estate During Housing Crisis
As housing costs and rents skyrocket, a significant number of MPs are trying to profit through investment in real estate.
Housing
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Help Save The Cities You Love. Stop Using Airbnb
Deleting the app can serve as an act of resistance against greedy property owners and landlords throughout the world.
London Renter Receives No Support from Major Parties After Being Evicted
“Renters get less say … we’re taking what we can get."
Ontario Election Platforms Fail to Address Roots of Housing Crisis
“If we have a government that refuses to acknowledge the core problem with the housing market, we’re not going to have appropriate solutions.”
I’m Supposed To Feel Sorry For Landlords? I Don’t!
Reviewing a Globe and Mail article that tries to make us feel sorry for ‘mom-and-pop real estate investors.’
Ontario NDP Housing Plan Thin on Details, Leaves Out Previous Pledges
The ONDP’s housing promises are thinner than those offered in their 2018 platform and in a policy document that the party published in 2020.
Only Working Class Organizing Can Defeat Renovictions
Legal and policy prescriptions can’t contain the forces driving renovictions, but the organized efforts of working class people can.
Liberals’ Home Savings Account Proposal A ‘Gimmick’ That Leaves Low-Income Renters Behind, Analysts Say
“It’s most likely to be a tax shelter for a very, very small pool of Canadians who have very high incomes under the age of 40.”
Does The NDP's Housing Plan Go Far Enough?
We asked NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh what truly "affordable" housing means, and whether 500,000 affordable housing units is enough to address the current shortfall.