Housing

Jessie Anton · CBC News · Posted: Feb 13, 2023

The federal government has announced it's providing the City of Regina $6.6 million from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to put toward another rapid housing initiative project.

According to Ahmed Hussen, the federal…

Courtney Dickson · CBC News · Posted: Jan 06, 2023

Simon Fraser University professor Svitlana Matviyenko was in Kyiv on New Year's Eve when Russia fired missiles into the city. 

"It was a very strange experience, obviously. And scary in many ways," she told Stephen Quinn, the…

J.P. Antonacci The Hamilton Spectator Sat., Jan. 7, 2023

Olha Diletchuk first came to Titan Trailers near Courtland in June, one week after she and her two young children landed in Canada as refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.

“I was ready to do any job just to stay here. I was…

Kelly Skjerven The Star Thu., Dec. 1, 2022

Newcomers searching for a home in Toronto’s tight rental market face “alarming” levels of discrimination, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

In a phone audit of rental listings that appeared this year…

Joanne Chianello · CBC · Posted: Nov 22, 2022

The federal and provincial housing ministers chose National Housing Day to announce $91.85 million in funding for 272 affordable units in Ottawa.

More than half the funds are earmarked for a federal low-cost loan to local developer…

Robert Williams The Star Wed., Nov. 16, 2022

KITCHENER — An exemption in the Rent Control Act for newer rental units means a Syrian refugee family’s monthly cost for a Kitchener town home will more than double in February.

Jumping from a current rent of $1,900 per month to $4,000…

Sharif Hassan November 10, 2022 The Canadian Press

Galyna Durysvt spent months looking for a rental apartment in the Greater Toronto Area after fleeing the war in Ukraine.

She’d view prospective rentals and put in applications but kept hitting a wall in her search when some…

Muriel Draaisma · CBC News · Posted: Nov 08, 2022

Homeless advocates gathered outside the office of Toronto Mayor John Tory on Tuesday to demand that the city immediately open more emergency shelter spaces for unhoused people ahead of winter.

The Shelter and Housing Justice…

Shawn Jeffords · CBC News · Posted: Nov 07, 2022

The City of Toronto is expanding its shelter system as winter approaches, stressing that the need for beds continues to grow while the resources to fund them remain strained.

The city will add 1,000 spaces to its system during the…

Yvette Brend · CBC News · Posted: Nov 08, 2022

Finding enough workers to assemble pre-built walls and floors at the Etobicoke plant where Paul Askett manages manufacturing is a grind. 

He's hoping that a record wave of new Canadians expected over the next three years will help…