What’s New on NHA’s Podcast? Co-op Skyscrapers, CLT's, & Resisting Financialized Landlords This year we’ve shared some incredible conversations with leading thinkers & activists. Check out this breakdown of highlights from our growing library of episodes. newhousingalternatives.ca/whats-new-on...

Don’t miss our new episode with Chiyi Tam of Toronto Chinatown Land Trust. Chiyi shares stories of how, in the face of intense displacement pressures, CLT's can bring communities together to protect homes & cultural spaces. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

From Tongs to Trusts: Mutual Aid in Toronto's Chinatown

Podcast Episode · New Housing Alternatives · July 17 · 33m

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Rather than offering tax breaks & cheap financing to aggressive financial firms, governments should focus on protecting tenants and "reducing these threats" - "directing funding to help non-market actors build & acquire more homes.” - NHA's Jeremy Withers in the Vancouver Sun

jeremywithers.bsky.social@jeremywithers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great to talk with the Vancouver Sun about: - how concentrated the ownership of rental properties is in the hands of large financial firms, and; - these firms' track record of aggressively raising rents and evicting tenants. 🧵👇 vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Supportive housing providers face a patchwork of overlapping and inconsistent regulatory frameworks across Canada. Out today! Our new report explores the challenges this poses for those working to end homelessness, proposing clear solutions. 🧵👇 newhousingalternatives.ca/defining-sup...

Across Canada, supportive housing providers face a patchwork of overlapping and inconsistent regulatory frameworks. NHA’s new report, Defining Supportive Housing in British Columbia and Ontario: Policy Implications and Considerations, explores...

Research Highlights: Defining Supportive Housing in Canada

Across Canada, supportive housing providers face a patchwork of overlapping and inconsistent regulatory frameworks. NHA’s new report, Defining Supportive Housing in British Columbia and Ontario: Policy Implications and Considerations, explores...

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Across Canada, supportive housing providers face a patchwork of overlapping and inconsistent regulatory frameworks. The absence of a shared definition of supportive housing has produced a fragmented policy landscape marked...

Defining Supportive Housing in British Columbia and Ontario: Policy Implications and Considerations

Across Canada, supportive housing providers face a patchwork of overlapping and inconsistent regulatory frameworks. The absence of a shared definition of supportive housing has produced a fragmented policy landscape marked...

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If a judge who's ex-military can recognize that homeless people have rights, why not Ontario's premier? What Doug Ford should know about encampment residents: pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-ki...

What Doug Ford Should Know About Encampment Residents

If a judge who is ex-military can recognize that homeless people have rights, why not Ontario's premier?

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NHA's Senior Researcher Jeremy Withers talks to The Star about Ontario's mounting bailout of developers & financial firms. $178M is more than Ontario's projected to spend on affordable housing this year. These huge investments should leave homes in the hands of communities, not financial firms.

jeremywithers.bsky.social@jeremywithers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great talking to The Star on Ontario’s $178M bailout of a financial firm’s 1700 unit rental project. In exchange, 340 will be priced for mid-income renters for 40 years. Thats’s $524k each. Investing in non-profit ➡️ far more stable & affordable. But Ford knows that. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

“We can’t have housing be an extremely attractive investment and be affordable. We can’t square that circle,” said @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, Ontario research director and senior researcher with @policyalternatives.ca. #onpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Ontario is putting up to $178 million into a stalled Toronto rental project. Is it a good investment or ‘bailout’?

The province is funding the investment for the Scarborough project through the Build Ontario Fund, a Crown agency whose mandate is to invest in infrastructure that makes a profit.

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Great talking to The Star on Ontario’s $178M bailout of a financial firm’s 1700 unit rental project. In exchange, 340 will be priced for mid-income renters for 40 years. Thats’s $524k each. Investing in non-profit ➡️ far more stable & affordable. But Ford knows that. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Ontario is putting up to $178 million into a stalled Toronto rental project. Is it a good investment or ‘bailout’?

The province is funding the investment for the Scarborough project through the Build Ontario Fund, a Crown agency whose mandate is to invest in infrastructure that makes a profit.

thestar.com

Because of federal government policies, Canada’s real estate wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of the richest This article examines the relationship between Canada’s rising real estate values,...

The Unequal Gains of Housing Financialization and Crisis-Response Policies: Real Estate Appreciation and Rising Wealth Inequality in Canada 1999-2023

Because of federal government policies, Canada’s real estate wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of the richest This article examines the relationship between Canada’s rising real estate values,...

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My latest for @thestar.com Framed as helping renters become owners, this $2.2 billion tax break is helping the wealthy buy more rental properties. Developers should be offered a way out, not a bailout — one which leaves communities owning more homes, not investors. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ford and Carney claim $2.2 billion HST rebate on new homes will help renters become owners. Instead, it’s helping the wealthy buy more rental properties

This $2.2 billion tax giveaway is inequitable and short-sighted. Public funds and tax breaks should not be offered indiscriminately and unconditionally. They should be extended on a targeted basis, as

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Our new report tracks a sharp rise in the number of neighbourhoods gentrifying across 🇨🇦 over the past two decades. City by city, we map the spread of gentrification from 1961-2021, shining a spotlight on displacement of working class communities. 🧵👇 newhousingalternatives.ca/mapping-the-...

Next Thursday, May 28 at noon, join us for our free webinar with Tuna Taşan-Kok, Sara Ozogul, & Andre Legarza. We're speaking about how planning, property, & investment shape housing outcomes, and what we can do to create more equitable futures. www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-convers...

In Conversation with Dr. Tuna Taşan-Kok

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Tuna Taşan-Kok diving into fresh ideas and insights from her new book: Spatial Governance Landscapes

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.@canadianlabour.bsky.social Andrew Jackson's 1993 National Investment Fund proposal shows what an alternative Canada Strong Fund ought to look like that would help to guarantee jobs and build infrastructure for a green & equitable economy. 🔗 broadbentinstitute.ca/research/national-investment-fund

Out today! Our report for CMHC reveals stark differences in tenant protections across Canada, asking who might be at higher risk of eviction? We assess the strength of rent controls & eviction protections for each province & territory. newhousingalternatives.ca/jurisdiction...

Jurisdictional Differences in Eviction Risk Across Canada - New Housing Alternatives

The report reveals stark differences in the strength of tenant protections across Canada, asking who might be at higher risk of eviction?

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The past is not prologue. "Millennials in the Canadian housing market: An intergenerational comparison" -- new study from Statistics Canada Remarkable to see the differences across generations and between various Metros #vanpoi #bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanre www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/46-28...

The federal and provincial governments are engaged in a massive tax giveaway to the people that broke the housing market. By Jeremy Withers @policyalternatives.ca @ccpa-on.bsky.social #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Ontario’s HST Rebate on New Homes: A Bail Out in Disguise | CCPA

The federal and provincial governments are engaged in a massive tax giveaway to the people that broke the housing market

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Great piece by @docdantzler.bsky.social Housing policies that neglect to address & monitor their effects on ethnoracial inequities risk exacerbating them. "Building faster while ignoring racism means building inequity at scale." metropolitics.org/Build-Canada...

“Build Canada Homes” Will Fail Without Confronting Anti-Black Racism – Metropolitics

Canada's new housing agency risks repeating the same injustices that produced today's uneven housing crisis unless it embeds anti-racist frameworks in its development plans. When the federal…

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Ottawa and Queen's Park got together to bail out developers and prop up investors, and they called it "an HST rebate that will improve housing affordability." Will it really? @policyalternatives.ca in collaboration with @newhousingalt.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Ontario’s HST Rebate on New Homes: A Bail Out in Disguise | CCPA

The federal and provincial governments are engaged in a massive tax giveaway to the people that broke the housing market

policyalternatives.ca

Out today! Our report for CMHC reveals stark differences in tenant protections across Canada, asking who might be at higher risk of eviction? We assess the strength of rent controls & eviction protections for each province & territory. newhousingalternatives.ca/jurisdiction...

Jurisdictional Differences in Eviction Risk Across Canada - New Housing Alternatives

The report reveals stark differences in the strength of tenant protections across Canada, asking who might be at higher risk of eviction?

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Out now! Kensington Market CLT talks about how communities can fight for neighbourhood change on their own terms, and win! - organizing to stop a Walmart - preventing renovictions - winning funds to buy 3 apartments - preparing to break ground on new builds podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

Community Land Trusts and the Future of Kensington Market

Podcast Episode · New Housing Alternatives · April 17 · 31m

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Yes but for whom? Worth noting that in Oshawa CMA, investors acquired: 38% of townhomes completed between 2021 & 2023, & 30% of those completed 2016-20. 56% of condos completed 2021-23, & 54% completed 2016-20 StatCan has yet to release data for 2024 & on (www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/c...)

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Playing around with some numbers. The combined impact of the fed-prov initiatives on HST and Development Charges can really drive down the price of housing!

Housing bail out - who benefits? A clear winner: the nearly "50 private funds & high-net-worth individuals buying...condos in batches of 40 to 50” The $2.2B HST break gives these firms "another financial incentive" to bulk buy - up to $130k per home 👇🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Condo investment fund set to benefit from Ontario’s proposed tax break

Rebate gives High Art Capital a financial incentive to make bulk purchases of unsold condos to add them to the rental market

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The 2026 Ontario budget neglects core provincial responsibilities. By @ricardotranjan.bsky.social and @alonghurst.bsky.social : Read more ➡ www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Focus on budget balance overshadows public service rebuild and support for low-income Manitobans in Budget 2026. By @mollymccracken.bsky.social and Niall Harney. #mbpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Manitoba Budget 2026 - CCPA

Focus on budget balance overshadows public service rebuild and support for low-income Manitobans in Budget 2026

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The National Housing Council’s review panel on #AccessibleHousing is now open for contributions! You can contribute to the review panel by making a written submission: nhc-cnl.ca/review-panel... (1/3)

Ontario will offer up to $130k tax breaks for all buyers of new homes, including investors buying “rental property”. Before, the HST rebate was for 1st-time buyers. Now, it will help buyers who already own outbid those who don’t, costing the public dearly. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

All Ontario buyers will be eligible for HST rebate on new homes for one year, Ford says

Premier Doug Ford says the province and federal government plan to temporarily expand the HST rebate for new homes in the province, allowing all buyers a rebate of up to $130,000.

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"Governments [are creating] programs to have...big players invest in more housing. Is that a misguided policy direction?" "...Building more housing is important, particularly affordable housing. The solution to affordability, though, isn't more market housing being built by financial firms."

New Housing Alternatives@newhousingalt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Don't miss NHAs' Martine August on "Good for Cities". Her data-driven research ID's a big problem. A few huge financial firms are re-shaping 🇨🇦's rental landscape - aggressively 📈 rents & eviction rates. infrastructureinstitute.ca/engagement/g... @iiutoronto.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social

Don't miss NHAs' Martine August on "Good for Cities". Her data-driven research ID's a big problem. A few huge financial firms are re-shaping 🇨🇦's rental landscape - aggressively 📈 rents & eviction rates. infrastructureinstitute.ca/engagement/g... @iiutoronto.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social