by REM Editorial Team | Nov 21, 2025 | News
Canada’s national mortgage delinquency rate fell for the first time in three years in the second quarter of 2025, but Ontario and B.C. continued to see rising missed payments, pointing to “financial stress” in the country’s most expensive markets. The national...
by REM Editorial Team | Oct 16, 2025 | News
(One of the catalogue designs. Photo credit: CMHC) The federal government has released a catalogue of standardized housing designs aimed at reducing costs and speeding up the construction of new homes across the country. The Housing Design Catalogue includes 50...
by REM Editorial Team | Sep 17, 2025 | News
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) says the pace of housing starts in August declined 16 per cent month-over-month. CMHC’s monthly report released Tuesday says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts came in at 245,791 units in August, down from...
by Paul Abbott | Sep 8, 2025 | Guest Columns
Canada’s housing crisis has become a national policy priority, and for good reason. Affordability is at generational lows, rental markets are straining under record population growth, and homebuilding has slowed even as demand rises. Governments have responded with...
by Samantha Long | Aug 21, 2025 | Community, Profiles
The Linden Housing Co-Operative in Perth, Ont. is reviving a housing model that once flourished in Canada before being phased out. The non-profit group is building 36 new units and four renovated homes in the town, just southwest of Ottawa, by December 2026, with the...
