by Kunal Sawhney | Feb 28, 2022 | Columnists
Could soaring home prices trigger a “Freedom Convoy” type protest by disgruntled low-income households? The Bank of Canada used monetary policy manoeuvres to preserve liquidity in the wake of COVID disruptions. This mirrored the policy actions of other central banks...
by Seyfi Tomar | Feb 25, 2022 | Columnists
As we approach municipal and provincial elections in Ontario, housing and labour shortages will dominate the media headlines in 2022. We need to move beyond focusing purely on the number of new houses and how that relates to population or household change. We must...
by Chris Seepe | Jan 27, 2022 | Featured
I recently looked at the government’s substantial revenue stream from investment properties and realized that government has an affordable housing conflict of interest. The more affordable the housing, the less affordable it is to government. After reviewing the many...
by Chris Seepe | Jan 14, 2022 | Featured
The affordable housing crisis is incredibly complex and crosses all boundaries and lines of government, political parties, high- to low-income groups, societal demographic groups from millennials to seniors, health-related groups and many other definitions of need....
by John Gregory | Dec 6, 2021 | Columnists
The latest trend in building affordable housing is the Passive House. The certified Passive House is “the simplest, lowest-cost environmental solution to affordable housing,” says Medora Uppal, director of operations at YWCA Hamilton. Uppal helped shepherd the...
