Ray Sullivan
@sullivanray.bsky.social
Affordable housing geek. Day job with the Canadian Housing & Renewal Association. Posts are personal. So is cycling.
The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association is keeping track of housing commitments in the federal election: chra-achru.ca/federal-elec...
Federal Election 2025 - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
CHRA Federal Election Campaign: Take action for community housing The upcoming federal election presents a crucial opportunity to push for real solutions
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Here’s a nation-building project i can get behind: New Report Calls for Canada to Double its Supply of Non-Market Housing
New report calls for Canada to double its non-market housing
Non-market housing is permanent rental housing owned and managed by a non-profit organization, a co-operative, an Indigenous provider or a municipal or provincial government
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Build public housing for Canadians. IMHO, a "Made In Canada" response to the economic threat from the US recognizes and prioritizes social stability as good for the economy, not the other way around.
Ray Sullivan@sullivanray.bsky.social · 2y agoFaced with economic threats and challenges to our sovereignty from the White House, Canadians are scrambling for ways to create economic resiliency and protection against the coming instability. Read on: chra-achru.ca/blog_article...
Faced with economic threats and challenges to our sovereignty from the White House, Canadians are scrambling for ways to create economic resiliency and protection against the coming instability. Read on: chra-achru.ca/blog_article...
Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada’s Path Forward - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada's Path Forward Faced with economic threats and challenges to our sovereignty from the White House,
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Unmet promises put urban Indigenous last in line for housing torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
OPINION: Unmet promises put urban Indigenous last in line for housing
For more than a decade, the Indigenous community housing professionals have been pushing for a national Indigenous housing strategy.
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As usual, Duncan gets it right. He’s writing about Scotland, but the parallels to housing in Canada are spot on. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion... www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Stop talking about housing as a national emergency - and use the three Ps to get a grip on it
We should stop talking about housing as a national emergency, writes Professor Duncan Maclennan
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Let’s face facts – our economy lacked resiliency before Trump 2.0, and his return to power is only making a bad situation worse. Here’s what I’m thinking: chra-achru.ca/blog_article...
Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada’s Path Forward - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada's Path Forward Faced with economic threats and challenges to our sovereignty from the White House,
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With vacancy rates at their lowest in many cities - It is even more important to continue investing in preserving our assets and increasing supply @tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social @sullivanray.bsky.social @jasonthorne.bsky.social
Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 2y agoMontreal warns tenants to think twice before moving this year
Trump says America has ‘all the trees’ it needs. But fixing the housing crisis may mean depending on Canadian wood
Trump says America has ‘all the trees’ it needs. But fixing the housing crisis may mean depending on Canadian wood | CNN Business
President Donald Trump has frequently quipped that “we don’t need” products from Canada.
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« The idea that your right to live in a neighbourhood that’s frozen in time is more important than someone else’s rights to have a home? This needs to shift. »
Parking woes that axed N.L. housing part of ‘not in my backyard’ trend, experts say
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Concerns over a lack of parking that led councillors in St. John's, N.L., to axe a proposal for affordable housing last week are part of a
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Pellerin: Ask your election candidates how they'll prevent renovictionshttps://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/pellerin-ask-your-election-candidates-how-theyll-prevent-renovictions
Dear Belmont neighbours: your “right” to a live on a block frozen in time does not trump someone else’s right to have a home.
HousingNowTO@housingnowto.bsky.social · 2y ago"It's a win across the board, we need 9,000 long-term care beds just within the @CityOfToronto alone. This is an option to reuse a space..." Our population is aging fast, Mark Richardson said, and extra #LTC space is needed wherever it can be found... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In Ontario, municipalities cover 51% of the costs to address homelessness. That’s the order of government with the least financial capacity. It’s not working. Time for the Province to step up.
‘This is the floor, not the ceiling’: More than 80,000 people were homeless in Ontario in 2024, report finds
Children and young adults account for nearly 25 per cent of people experiencing chronic homelessness, the report said.
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Cut through the political noise, and focus on getting things done. Here’s an overdue and outstanding commitment on housing that needs your support.
Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing As rural, urban, and northern Indigenous housing providers and allies we can wait no longer. What's at stake is $2.8
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30% Of LA fires are being fought by inmates They’re being paid between 16¢ to 74¢ an hour. They’re fed a bologna sandwich and an apple while fighting the fires. www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
Due To “Slavery Clause,” 30% Of LA Fires Are Being Fought By Inmates
30% of those battling the Los Angeles wildfires are Inmates firefighters. There maximum day rate of $10.24 is due to the 13th Amendment's 'Slavery Clause'. Is this fair?
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Cut through the political noise, and focus on getting things done. Here’s an overdue and outstanding commitment on housing that needs your support.
Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing As rural, urban, and northern Indigenous housing providers and allies we can wait no longer. What's at stake is $2.8
chra-achru.ca
The health costs of homelessness are massive. So are the economic costs. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The homelessness epidemic is a health crisis, but also an economic one
People can’t be expected to recover from addiction or live healthier lives if they don’t have a place to call home
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What should Nate Erskine-Smith make a priority in his short window as housing minister? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: This new Liberal minister has a tiny window of time to ease the housing crisis. He just might do it
Nate Erskine-Smith is one of the rare Liberals who seems to have some idea of what to do about housing.
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This government is taking their foot off the gas pedal, just when we need them to accelerate and beat the housing crisis chra-achru.ca/news/fall-ec...
Fall Economic Statement 2024: a missed opportunity - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association
(December 16, 2024) - Today, the federal government presented the Fall Economic Statement. We know the ongoing and deepening housing crisis is a key
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Embargoed copies of the Fall Economic Statement were supposed to be released to journalists at 10 AM (Chrystia Freeland announced her resignation at 9:07 AM) It is now 12 noon and confused Finance Canada officials say they still don’t know when the FES (hidden under this cloth) will be released
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 2y agoChrystia Freeland announces her resignation, hours before she was set to deliver the Fall Economic Statement:
The Parliamentary Budget Officer released an analysis of the National Housing strategy yesterday. It’s not great news: www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati... Buckle up for a 🧵
Federal Spending on Housing Affordability in 2024
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