Week in Review: January 2, 2026

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that we noticed over the last two weeks:

Relevant housing news 

• Opinion: Edmonton's tuberculosis outbreak shows need for housing

• Sask. NDP introduces rent control legislation, but government says it won't happen

• Here’s Why Involuntary Care Won’t Work for Most People

• Explaining Edmonton’s shelter capacity this winter

• Former homeless man lends his voice to calls for a managed encampment site in Winnipeg

• Calgary homeless outreach team desperate for new headquarters

• Opinion: Next-level collaboration needed to fix Edmonton's social ills

• New Brunswick's new homelessness strategy could use more urgency, UNB researchers find

• City confident shelters ready for winter, but advocates raise concerns

• Is Ottawa prepared to keep homeless people out of the cold this winter?

• Homeless shelters, places of comfort to break the loneliness at Christmas in Montreal

• Sudbury homeless group seeks public data on cold injuries

• First Nation in B.C. develops prefabricated housing system from locally-sourced wood 

• Hospitals warned about rare infection emerging in Calgary among homeless adults

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