As property values skyrocket, long-term renters — many of whom are elderly — face the very real risk of homelessness.
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Ontario’s first Growth Plan won awards that recognized the province as a leader in the field. But since then, successive changes to the policy have sabotaged the original plan’s progress.
Well-designed residential developments with abundant tree cover can help protect cities against urban heat and flooding.
The proportion of housing that’s unoccupied has actually fallen since the last census, but the key issue is most of these dwellings are not in the areas where the need for housing is greatest.
Unaffordability is only one type of housing vulnerability that has taken its toll on British Columbians during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tenancy law and rent raises are complex - an expert breaks it down.
Our study reveals that the housing affordability crisis is having a pervasive impact on Canadian society. It is imposing constraints that alter the structure and composition of Canadian families.
The housing crisis facing Australians has been brewing for a long time. A national housing strategy guided by expert, independent and transparent advice is long overdue.
Manufactured housing – the preferred name for what were once called mobile homes – has changed dramatically in recent decades. Three planning experts call for giving it a new look.
Ensuring visible minorities have equitable access to affordable housing is an important step in fulfilling the National Housing Strategy’s goal to make affordable housing available to all Canadians.
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.
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.
Principais colaboradores
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Associate Profesor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning, 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
