Week in Review: April 25, 2025

Oops, we forgot to post last week with the general holiday!

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that ECOHH noted the last two weeks:

From ECOHH’s social media

• Prevention has many benefits over trying to get housing for people who are without.

• Article about housing in relation to the election

• What are political parties saying about housing issues in the election campaign?

• Learn about the Housing Canada Campaign here

• Homelessness in the Headlines: How Canadian Media Covers the Issue in Three Mid-Size Cities

• ECOHH is supporting an activity on Tuesday, April 22, to highlight the lack of messages from politicians in the election campaign related to the huge need for more non-market housing and better protection for renters.

• The Liberal Housing Plan

Relevant housing news 

• The 2025 federal election: A roundup of housing and homelessness plans

• Homeward Trust grapples with changing municipal, provincial funding systems

• Protest for Social Housing During "Leaders' Debate" in Montreal

• Homelessness is getting worse, but advocates say it’s all but forgotten in election

• Saskatoon report shows the reality of renting while homeless

• Don’t have an ID or address? Here’s how you can vote in the election

• ‘I thought we were going to be homeless’: B.C.’s housing crisis affects women fleeing abuse

• Poilievre vows more power for police to end homeless ‘tent cities’

• On the Brink: Rent is eating up half her pay, payday loans made it worse

• Legally blind Moose Jaw man fears being displaced from government housing

• Ajax tenants in affordable housing units plead for heritage designation to prevent redevelopment

• ‘Shame!‘: Council jeered for removing portable toilets and pausing meals to homeless encampment

• Behind the Indigenous housing crisis: Homeless man and CEO tell their stories

• Montreal counts its homeless population

• The pros and cons of rent control in Alberta

• Opposition pushing for 24-hour access to shelters as P.E.I. housing crisis drags on

• Next federal government should prioritize affordable housing: Thunder Bay advocate

• Can the Liberals or Conservatives fix housing in Canada? 

• Has B.C.'s short-term rental crackdown made housing cheaper?

• Vancouver lobbies province to ban no-pet clauses in rental housing

• The Signal presents: Housing and Homelessness Forum

• Has the housing crisis shaken your trust in democracy?

• Tiny homes and their role in the housing crisis

• Will campaign promises in the federal election actually move the needle on the housing issue?

• How this rapid housing project may save lives

• How fixed-term leases are depleting Halifax’s affordable housing stock

• After biggest rent hike in decades, Quebec changing method to calculate it

• Is the Liberals’ promise of a wartime housing effort enough?

As always, we recommend checking out these sources for additional information on housing and homelessness

• Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) 

• Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

• Canadian Housing & Renewal Association (CHRA) 

• Federal Housing Advocate

• Homeless Hub (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness) 

• Homeward Trust 

• Housing Complex  

• Make the Shift   

• National Right to Housing Network (NRHN)  

• Social Housing & Human Rights (SHHR) 

• Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network