Search results
Aug 30, 2023 · HOUSE PRICES TO RELATIVE INCOME. Colmar argues that those looking for a "big headline about a housing bubble" should be keeping an eye on the disparity between house prices and incomes.
Apr 15, 2024 · Speculative effect. The trajectory of home prices is well-known to most Canadians. According to the Canadian Real Estate Association, the average home in January 2005 sold for $241,000. By...
- Spotlight on Housing Inequality
- Architecture and Decommodified Housing
- The History of Co-Op Housing
- Alternative Housing Solutions
People lacking intergenerational wealth are more likely to be newcomers, racialized or marginalized— making accessing housing even more difficult. Along with issues of race, the pandemic has spotlighted another crucial housing inequality issue, homelessness. The issue has been exacerbated by the pandemic as people experiencing homelessness avoided ...
My experiences with the housing market motivated me to study the architectural history of a number of decommodified housing options conceived at the end of the 1970sthat are still in operation in Providence, R.I., and in Montréal. (My paper on Montréal cases called “Empowerment through Design? Housing Cooperatives for Women in Montreal” will be pub...
Canada has had many experiments in collective ownership and decommodified housing. Co-op housing is one of the better know experiments. The first-generation of co-ops were intended for private property acquisition. Members of these “building co-operatives” would not only contribute payments, but also sweat equitywhere households would provide const...
From the transformation of single room occupancy (SRO) hotels into affordable apartments for young people (SRO Revitalization) in Vancouver, to the conversion of Alexandra Park public housing to the Atkinson Housing Cooperative in Toronto to Cohabitat in Québec City, there are ongoing efforts to provide alternative housing and living models across ...
- Ipek Tureli
Nov 22, 2023 · Home prices and household debt, because of massive mortgages, are sky-high. Some economists say affordability will worsen, while others say prices are on their way down.
- Eliza Relman
- Henry Blodget
Jun 9, 2022 · Bullishness about Canadian property has long rested on two pillars: a shortage of housing, especially in big cities, and an influx of immigrants. Like any good story, though, things get...
Oct 15, 2021 · Average house prices rose 14 per cent in the past year, new data shows Friday, as Swiss bank UBS says Toronto and Vancouver markets are in the midst of two of the biggest housing bubbles in...
Apr 5, 2021 · Canada's housing market is indeed flush with cash at the moment, with the national average selling price hitting an all-time high of $678,091 in February. That's up more than 25 per cent from the...
