COVID-19 pandemic underlines the need for reliable housing funding in the North

In the last two decades, the northern housing crisis has only deepened as the annual federal support for social housing nationwide has been gradually reduced—and will be zero by 2037.

Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen is pictured speaking to reporters in Ottawa in July 2020. Recent efforts at the territorial and community government level to see communities lead their own housing needs assessments as well as programming and policy are hindered by the absence of consistent, dependable funding streams to implement these plans, writes Julia Christensen. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JULIA CHRISTENSEN

December 8, 2021

When the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in Canada, the concern was immediately palpable in northern communities, where a persistent housing crisis has led to a high prevalence of respiratory disease, and compounds additional social determinants of health. Combined with a threadbare health-care sys...

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