Week in Review: January 24, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• You have less homelessness to deal with if you prevent evictions.

• See meeting agenda item 7.3 for an update report on City of Edmonton actions related to derelict properties

Relevant housing news 

• Dismantling encampments could hurt people: Montreal report on housing difficulties

• Rental scam in Edmonton

• Edmonton residents object to parcel of community park being designated as surplus, developed for housing

• Edmonton's tax on derelict homes prompts action from owners, inspires other municipalities

• Endless diarrhea and exhaustion: the stomach bug making the rounds among the most vulnerable in Canada

• $112M in provincial funding for Jasper housing rebuild 'can't be spent' amid impasse: minister

• Ottawa signs deals to house homeless in 11 municipalities in Ontario, Saskatchewan

• Lethbridge reports huge increase in homeless encampments

• Why are homeless Londoners sleeping outdoors during cold weather alert?

• Homeless advocate lobbies Saskatoon city council for more Indigenous-focused warm-up spaces

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