ACORN Canada protests Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s stakes in ‘exploitative financialized housing’

Affordable housing advocates say pension funds are part of a trend of investment capital rushing into the rental housing sector after the 2007-2008 U.S. financial crisis, in ways that are causing problems for tenants.

Members of ACORN Canada marched to the Montreal headquarters of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board on June 20, 2022, to protest the pension fund's housing investments.Photograph courtesy of ACORN Canada

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

July 5, 2022

Affordable housing advocates are calling on the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, and public sector unions to review the public sector pension fund’s housing assets, which they say are financing exploitative housing practi...

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