Week in Review: August 1, 2025

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that ECOHH noted this week:

From ECOHH’s social media

• The Homelessness Income Cut-Off (HICO): A New Benchmark to Prevent Homelessness in Canada

• Measuring discrimination in rental housing across Canada

Relevant housing news 

• I’m a Priest, and My Churchyard Became an Encampment

• New Trump Executive Order Will Further Criminalize Homelessness, Mental Illness

• ‘I’m so upset’: Sask. senior launches petition for rent control

• Homes Still Aren’t Designed for a Body Like Mine

• N.S. reform of care of people with disabilities behind in housing ‘complex’ cases

• The kooky housing supply filtering debate

• Memo to Carney and Robertson on Fixing Housing

• A proposed law could change the potential of supportive housing for those in addiction

• Data shows 90% of trespassing tickets on Edmonton transit go to those with no fixed address

• ‘That is wickedness. I am working for $17.23 per hour:’ Migrant worker reacts to proposed spike in housing cost payroll deduction

• Greater Vancouver homelessness has grown by 9% since 2023: report

• Only 6 days until Toronto's new renovictions bylaw comes into effect

• Trump’s Executive Order Criminalizing Houselessness Reveals a Familiar Dystopia

• Homeless agencies squeezed by people coming in from out-of-town.

• ‘Don’t have enough housing’: Saskatoon housing prices soar above Prairie average 

• Can community housing help the housing crisis?

• Proposed incentive program aims to boost downtown Edmonton student housing

• Mobile homeowners say they feel 'trapped' as rising lot rents scare off buyers

• Can Canada build its way out of the housing crisis?

• Nearly 200 affordable housing units left abandoned in eastern Montreal

• Two housing experts debate the federal government's housing plan

• Thunder Bay organization urges citizens to say "Yes, in my backyard"

• More people with disabilities are in temporary housing despite N.S. plan

• With growth in homelessness last year, Saint John faced 31% increase in encampment fires

• Province, city too slow to secure housing for people living in encampments, North Point Douglas residents say

• Chimney swifts' housing crisis creates hurdle for affordable housing providers

• Federal government to stop funding hotel rooms for asylum seekers, IRCC says

• Be angry at the system, not homeless people, advocate urges ahead of CK encampment meeting

• Saint John encampment green zones aim to break barriers for city’s homeless

• This is what a recent count of the city's homelessness reveals about people living on Windsor's streets

• Newfoundlanders who fled cod moratorium are returning — and creating a housing crunch

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