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Six pots of coffee beans.

Canadians aren’t imagining the cost-of-living crisis

Aerial view of a waterside rural First Nations community.

Court rulings confirm duty to provide housing and safe water for First Nations. Now what?

Workers work on a house frame wrapped in plastic against a clear blue sky.

Build Canada Homes: The shift to prefabricated housing is more complex than it seems

Stone façade of a building with two signs advertising a 4½ apartment for rent. One is an orange “For rent” sign; the other is a handwritten notice with details.

Escaping the housing trap: what the Carney budget reveals

Mark Carney in the distance speaking to a crowd of people in a room decorated with Indigenous symbols such as paintings and totem poles.

Carney’s “nation-building” is nothing but a blast from the past

Two low-rise buildings are underway next to each other, with a handful of workers on the roof of one and a crane hovering over-head.

Breaking down interprovincial barriers can tackle the housing crisis, too

Four high-rise buildings are clustered together with small balconies filled with flower pots, chairs, etc.

The housing crisis is made worse by a policy mismatch

A simple line drawing showing a house and a key.

Housing for people with intellectual disabilities must be entirely rethought

View from a high-rise showing snow-covered roofs of homes and shops on a few blocks of downtown streets, with street lights glowing with the backdrop of a flat grey sky at dusk.

Has immigration become a third rail in Canadian politics?

Climate resilience will need a federal, enforceable framework

Improving access to job placement programs for youth in Toronto shelters

A village of low-rise apartment buildings and a few shops sit between forest and the waterfront.

The need for Indigenous-led housing

“Sleeping rough” is a problem that needs tailored homelessness solutions

Canada’s ineffective building energy regulations are the elephant in the warming room

Personne n’est à l’abri de la crise du logement

Affordable, secure and adequate housing as an economic strategy

Rising house prices and the challenge governments face

Federal tax policy incentivizes demolition over reuse

We need to focus on the problem of crowding, not density, in our cities

More innovative transit, mixed-use development and cities’ essential workers

A four storey rid brick building.

Addressing climate change by retrofitting Canada’s existing buildings

The rise of financial landlords has turned rental apartments into a vehicle for profit

The blueprint to address systemic racism in First Nations’ housing

Homelessness could rise with economic downturn

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