12 h. ago Gilligan: It's more complicated than just making housing affordable

People need access to a whole range of services: health, employment and education, adequate food. OCH is looking for better ways to coordinate that.

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5 d. ago B.C. housing innovators striving for faster, cheaper homes — and happier residents

From B.C.-made prefabricated mass timber components to regional policies that promote social well-being, homegrown innovations are contributing to faster, more affordable and 'happier' housing. This is Part 3 of Postmedia’s How Canada Wins series.

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6 d. ago Twelve injured, 42 displaced by fire at Vancouver seniors apartment

Because of outdated building requirements, sprinklers were only installed on the building's first floor.

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6 d. ago This former prison in Quebec will soon become affordable housing

The St-Vincent penitentiary will be transferred by the end of 2025 to the Canada Lands Company for the development.

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7 d. ago Fire breaks out at affordable housing highrise in Vancouver's West End

The Nicholson Tower houses about 240 low and moderate income residents

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7 d. ago These identical house designs could soon appear all over Ontario

After more than a year of planning and consultation, the Government of Canada has released today the final details of its Housing Design Catalogue — dozens of standardized templates to help achieve housing affordability for low-density infill developments.In preparation for the full rollout of the catalogue, the federal government is providing final renderings, floor plan layouts, and key building design details to provide builders with a head start to consider using these templates and begin planning.The intention is to reduce design and construction costs and simplify and accelerate housing approvals and construction for builders who choose to use these templates. As well, these templates help estimate construction costs."These standardized designs will help smaller homebuilders cut through the complexity, speeding up the time between concept and construction and lowering costs of building," said Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the federal minister of housing, infrastruct...

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2 w. ago WATCH LIVE TONIGHT: Are measures to improve housing affordability in B.C. working?

Watch and submit your questions to our panel of housing experts as they discuss the state of real estate in British Columbia

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2 w. ago OREA Congratulates Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives on their 2025 Provincial Election Win

TORONTO, Feb. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — “The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) would like to congratulate Premier Doug Ford and Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives (PCs) on winning their third majority government. Ontario’s REALTORS® look forward to working with the newly re-elected provincial government and all elected MPPs to bring housing affordability back for Ontario’s young […]

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2 w. ago How Canada Wins: Edmonton a leader in housing affordability, construction

“Some other cities are just not trying hard enough. And Edmonton is scrappy, and Edmonton is underrated.”

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3 w. ago Here's how much you really need to earn per year to afford a home in Toronto right now

Even if houses in and around Toronto are no longer flying off the market like they used to — the case is quite the contrary, actually — the city's real estate continues to grow ever less affordable.Sales are in a protracted slump and new listings are surging, making hard to sense even a hint of the old urgency the region's market has hitherto been known for.But still, prices are proving surprisingly indifferent to what's actually happening on the ground, with simply the idea that there is perennial demand serving as enough to keep the city's property as eternally overvalued as ever.(To be fair, if you bought a slice of the GTA market for a whopping $1,334,544 two years ago — the average price for a home of any type at the time — how would you feel about having to let it go for much less?)A new report on housing affordability across Canada shows how things worsened for buyers in nearly every city in&n...

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3 w. ago Kavanagh: Ask the candidates how they'll help people in need

Housing affordability and food insecurity can be solved, if we elect people of compassion to Queen's Park.

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3 w. ago Cecil Bellrose Manor to add 127 new homes to affordable housing stock

Cecil Bellrose stood for Métis rights, self-determination and creating more housing opportunities for Métis.

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3 w. ago Keith Jones: Toronto’s figured out this rental affordability mechanism, why hasn’t Vancouver?

Opinion: The community housing trust model is an incredibly powerful and shockingly underused pathway to build affordable housing, particularly on public lands

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3 w. ago Pasma: An urgent care clinic, more affordable housing in Ottawa West

The Citizen invited Ottawa candidates from the four major provincial parties to explain why you should vote for them on Feb. 27.

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3 w. ago 2025 Ontario Election – How Each Provincial Party’s Housing Platform Stacks Up

OREA surveyed and reviewed each provincial party on their commitment to fix the housing affordability crisis TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — To keep Ontarians informed on which candidates say they will support pro-growth, pro-ownership, and pro-affordability housing solutions in the upcoming 2025 Ontario election, the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) surveyed all major […]

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4 w. ago Opinion: Attracting more workers to residential construction begins with skill recognition

As every renter and would-be homebuyer knows, Alberta has a housing shortage — and to keep homes relatively affordable, it needs to build more of them, fast. Governments at all levels are working to make this possible. The Alberta government is doing its part through the 10-year Stronger Foundations affordable housing strategy. Municipal governments are […]

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4 w. ago Czan and Christy: Ottawa needs a better approach to steep development fees

The city's current practice — repeatedly increasing development charges — is not sustainable and does not help create affordable housing.

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4 w. ago Like Poilievre, Freeland pitching housing plan that would limit immigration

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland’s plan to fix the housing shortage would tie the number of newcomers Canada admits to housing availability. The former finance minister made the promise in a 10-point policy document her campaign issued Monday morning. Freeland said the move would slow down population growth until housing affordability stabilizes. Conservative […]

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4 w. ago Like Poilievre, Freeland is pitching a housing plan that would limit immigration

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland’s plan to fix the housing shortage would tie the number of newcomers Canada admits to housing availability. The former finance minister made the promise in a 10-point policy document her campaign issued Monday morning. Freeland said the move would slow down population growth until housing affordability stabilizes. Conservative […]

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