Why Canada must protect the existing affordable housing stock

Canada has among the lowest community housing stock of all G7 countries, yet the Liberals’ National Housing Strategy aims to create a mere 5,000 community housing units per year.

One key initiative that the Liberals must act on is to invest in a national acquisition program that would increase community housing while protecting the vanishing affordable rental supply, writes Jenny Kwan. Pexels photograph by Kindel Media

Opinion

BY NDP MP JENNY KWAN

January 31, 2024

Affordable housing across Canada is being lost at a seriously alarming rate; not to alien abduction, as the leader of the official opposition sarcastically wondered, but to housing profiteers who care most about their bottom line. These investor-landlords are looking to maxi...

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