Live-streamed July 28, 2025. Author Brian Goldstone discuss the staggering difference between official homelessness numbers and the real scope of the crisis...

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The Liberal government’s new federal affordable housing agency is relying on an outdated and faulty playbook.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 ...

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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.

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A place for Canadians near the poverty line to discuss personal finance.

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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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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 …