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Oct 3, 2019 · While low-income activists urge the city to take immediate action on Ottawa’s affordable housing crisis, policy experts and city councillors are looking to the federal government for some relief.
Nov 6, 2024 · The City of Ottawa will not meet its long-term targets for building new affordable housing without “significant" new support from higher levels of government, housing staff say. Another $155M ...
Dec 8, 2023 · For every new unit of affordable housing built in Ottawa, 31 are being lost due to rising rents, renovations or demolition, a recent study has found. The study by Carleton University professor...
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Jul 6, 2023 · The City of Ottawa has come up with seven ways to create more badly needed affordable housing and cash in on the federal Housing Accelerator Fund, including converting vacant office space and...
- Planning Systems Not Keeping Up, Expert Says
- Ottawa Adding 'Missing Middle' Housing
- Affordability Still An Issue
There were over 10,000 housing starts in 2021. The majority of these were in the suburbs as well as urban areas just outside the Greenbelt. Moffatt said more housing is good, but that planning systems needs to consider what kind of housing is needed and where. "When the population starts growing, suddenly our systems — our planning, our zoning, our...
The report also noted that Ottawa has a large amount of row housing being built compared to other cities — about a third of all development was row houses. Barrhaven, Gloucester, West Orléans and Stittsville were listed as areas where a significant number of row houses were started in 2021. Steve Pomeroy, senior research fellow at the Centre for Ur...
The report says supply is "the biggest issue affecting housing affordability" in Canada — but Pomeroy said it's unlikely increasing housing supply will have any significant impact on the average Ottawa resident's ability to buy or rent a home. Contrary to popular belief, he said increasing supply won't lower prices overall. "Yes, we're increasing s...
Feb 12, 2024 · The shortage of truly affordable rental housing across Canada has only worsened because governments have not been willing to invest in social housing.
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Mar 21, 2024 · Whitzman and Dreessen: Why does Ottawa lag behind on housing solutions? Other Canadian cities have innovated in order to ensure their residents are housed. Surely the nation's capital can do...
