Housing vs Capitalists Rageposting

Corporate developers and landlords have spent decades turning housing into a profit machine. And when the crisis gets worse, they deflect blame onto immigrants, red tape — anyone but themselves. So we're taking them out of the shadows and exposing them. We're launching a deep investigation into Canada's housing villains — who they are, how they got so rich, and how they've shaped housing policy to benefit themselves.

Even if we double home building, buying a house is expected to become less affordable for nearly half the country

Everything you need to know about Build Canada Homes, a new federal agency responsible for affordable housing development across the country.

The Liberal government’s new federal affordable housing agency is relying on an outdated and faulty playbook. Details for Build Canada Homes (BCH) show a plan to use public-private partnerships (P3s) that invites real estate developers and investors to profit from public housing spending.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford got visibly annoyed by a protest against his bill which negatively impacts tenants rights. I discuss the hilarious interaction, as ...

Ford may think that disappearing tenants and their unions from the LTB will disappear them from the city, but it won’t. Tenants and the growing tenant union movement in Ontario have been successfully utilizing the LTB to throw sand in the gears of financialized landlords’ predatory business model. Given the affordability crisis, they have no choice but to continue.

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Doug Ford has introduced another assault on tenant rights in Ontario. Bill 60, the so-called Fighting Delays Building Faster act is an omnibus bill that makes sweeping changes to 16 different pieces of legislation from construction planning to bike lanes to tenant rights.   After the bill was announced, Ford backtracked on the most egregious provisions on the housing file - those which would have effectively ended rent control for millions of tenants.

How long can tenants afford to wait for city to act, ask advocates.

One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

With rising rents and house prices making it increasingly harder to find a place to live, some are pointing the finger at Canada's record-level immigration rates.

The city of renters has spoken decisively in a referendum that could have a huge impact not just in Germany’s capital but across Europe.

As if life for renters isn't hellish enough

Homelessness has risen sharply since 2023, new data show. The research is clear: rental assistance promotes housing stability and is

The largest tenant union in the country is responding quickly and passionately to the devastation of the Los Angeles fires. The LA Tenants Union is demanding not just enforcement of existing California protections against price gouging of rental homes, but a moratorium on evictions and a rent freeze, all while tenants are coming together with heroic levels of mutual aid. But these steps will only mitigate a perpetual struggle, as union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis write in their new book “Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.” “Why do tenants wake up every month and have to pay rent?” they ask.

Dismissing Canada’s rental crisis as nothing but a supply-demand issue overlooks the fact that a small group of landlords dominates the rental market and exploits tenants. As rents become extortionate, Canadian landlords are reaping record profits.

Toronto's pre-construction condo market is finally bottoming out after over a decade and a half of frenzied construction that has reshaped the city's…

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With homelessness increasing nationwide, John Oliver takes a look at the way we discuss the unhoused, what policy failures are making the problem worse, and ...

A new omnibus bill tabled in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario has some people celebrating, but others feeling wary due to the changes it proposes …

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Tenant groups are ringing the alarm over changes that could dramatically increase the price of rent and drive people out of their homes.

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