National Housing Council’s missed opportunity

The Council decided not to hold financialized landlords accountable, resorting to a well-intentioned, but misguided comparison to the health-care system.

The result is a review panel report that offers recommendations barely different from those pedalled by the real estate industry and its pundits, write Leilani Farha and Julieta Perucca.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LEILANI FARHA, JULIETA PERUCCA

June 10, 2024

In 2019, the Government of Canada recognized housing as a human right, and created the National Housing Council, tasked with conducting consultations and review panels on key issues. On May 29, it released its much-anticipated review panel

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