Canada’s current economic growth model is currently dependent on the conversion of housing from a human right into a financial investment tool, leading to an ever-worsening housing crisis.
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Relaxing restrictions on small and non-traditional houses can help to increase the supply of affordable rental housing.
In a period when homelessness and housing costs have reached crisis levels, it’s time to look at housing co-operatives as a potential game-changer.
Providing more decommodified housing alternatives, like co-op, could offer a partial remedy to rampant housing inequality in Canada.
Canadians need to take steps to better address the financial insecurity of seniors. Otherwise, Canada may encounter a growing tide of desperate seniors in the near future.
In the first analysis of its kind, researchers interviewed Australians over 50 who have been house-sitting for more than a year.
New production methods, consumer trends and good ideas have the potential to bring manufacturing back into city centres. Can it coexist with housing?
Affordable housing has become a middle-class problem, and Ontario’s latest housing report reflects an approach that continues to marginalize those with the greatest need.
There is no universal minimum for the amount of living space we need. Rising spatial inequality, however, adversely impacts us on both individual and collective levels.
As demand grows for real estate and housing prices rise, more people are being priced out of the market. Government intervention is needed to produce affordable housing and control speculation.
The affordability of housing prices is important for the nation’s economic growth.
The government has long promoted the idea that we can build our way out of the housing crisis. Startling numbers of empty homes suggest the problem isn’t one of scarcity but affordability
A single open-air car park takes up land that could potentially house hundreds of people.
Plastic versions of igloos show an early example of culturally sensitive housing, abandoned in favour of inadequate southern-style structures.
It’s possible to prevent homelessness, but it will take a commitment and dedication to understanding the conditions that produce it.
Biden proposed $1.9 trillion in new coronavirus relief spending to help with the economic fallout of COVID-19. Four economists have a few ideas for him.
In both London and Liverpool – two extremes of Britain’s polarised housing market – activists have been busy re-imagining the future of public housing.
People who buy property through shared ownership may become trapped by high costs and rising property values.
Of 2,646 hectares of public land being prepared for sale in Victoria, 24 sites are suitable for building high-quality public housing in places of high need. Why isn’t the land being used for this?
Coronavirus has made it glaringly obvious how serious the problems with UK housing are.
Top contributors
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Associate Profesor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Sociology cross-listed in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster
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PhD Candidate, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor in the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
