Affordable housing

Mayors across Canada are calling on the federal parties to take urgent action on housing and homelessness as voting day fast approaches.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau faced broadsides for his government's efforts to make housing affordable and his handling of the economy that contracted just ahead of the election call.

Canada’s National Observer asked federal NDP environment and climate change critic Laurel Collins about key issues in the upcoming federal election, and how Canada can respond to the climate crisis.

Demonizing landlords and foreign buyers make for easy politics, and promising to help new homebuyers is an obvious winner, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Lamenting the "fly in and fly out" culture of workers in Quebec's northern communities, Premier François Legault said on Monday, August 16, 2021, his government would build more affordable housing in the north to entice families to settle.

Columnist Max Fawcett makes a case for taxing capital gains on your home.

Canada's municipalities are asking the federal government to include $7 billion in its upcoming budget for cities and housing providers to buy disused properties and quickly turn them into affordable housing.

Employment and Social Development Canada has announced it will conduct a national count of homeless Canadians in March and April. However, policy experts don’t see it as the right move during a pandemic.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will conduct a small shuffle of his ministers today, January 12, 2021, before holing up later in the day for a cabinet retreat to plot strategy for the resumption of Parliament.

Fifteen cities will share $500 million in federal funding so they can buy properties being sold because of the COVID-19 pandemic and use them to help keep people from becoming homeless.

The federal Liberals' throne speech on Wednesday, September 23, 2020, is to lay out plans for child care, health care, affordable housing and navigating the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A quiet choice this spring to have the Crown corporation responsible for helping Canadians obtain affordable housing run a commercial rent-relief program during the COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest front in a war between the Liberal government and opposition.

Toronto city councillors and housing advocates make a last-ditch effort to dissuade Premier Doug Ford’s government from passing a tenancy bill they warn will push renters out of their homes in massive numbers.

Canada's cities say the federal Liberals are willing to find creative ways to remove political roadblocks from provinces to fund billions in municipal projects, a sign of hope that comes as they ask Ottawa for more money and new ways to fund local work.