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1 day ago · Canada had a strong housing welfare system in the 1960s and 1970s, but this changed in 1993 when the federal government stopped funding social housing programs.
Aug 27, 2023 · Canada had long provided subsidized housing for people who couldn't afford to pay market value: for workers and returning veterans after the Second World War, for example, and in...
May 8, 2024 · Canada’s ongoing housing crisis extends beyond affordability and supply challenges. It also involves homelessness, risks to tenancy, shortage of accessible units, financialization and the...
Nov 16, 2016 · Social housing – public, non-profit, and co-operative – was once a part of Canada’s urban success story. Today there is new attention to affordable housing issues, and renewed optimism about federal policy.
Feb 12, 2024 · Social housing is non-market housing, either publicly owned or non-profit, and substantially subsidized to ensure low-income renter households pay no more than 30 per cent of their gross...
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Jul 15, 2023 · One national measure of the need for subsidized housing stretches back to 2021, when Statistics Canada conducted its latest Canadian Housing Survey. It showed that 1.5 per cent of households,...
Nov 16, 2022 · In Canada, just over 10 per cent of households live in housing that is unaffordable, unsuitable or inadequate, and they cannot afford alternative housing in their community.
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