How to tackle both housing affordability and poverty reduction

Federal strategies should include both a portable housing benefit and policies to address market-rate housing affordability.
Jean-Yves Duclos, minister of families, children, and social development, has been leading the charge on federal strategies for both housing and poverty reduction.
Housing has emerged as a major area of public policy concern in Canada, and not surprisingly, given the daily features by news organizations about how little this amount of money or that amount buys you these days in Vancouver, Toronto, and a growing number of other markets. The federal government ...

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