Week in Review: January 31, 2026

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that we noticed this week:

From ECOHH’s social media

• Information session to learn more about co-housing

• Protect our homes: National housing meeting

• Reimagining Home Collaborative Printmaking Workshop

• Banks and Canada’s housing crisis

• ECOHH made a submission to the Alberta government with recommendations for the next provincial budget

Relevant housing news 

• Vancouver Councillors Call for Tougher Tenant Protections

• Escaping the housing trap: what the Carney budget reveals

• When ideology replaces evidence in the drug poisoning crisis

• Community group wants Quebec City to allow encampments

• A single word in the temperature criteria prevented emergency cold weather shelter for homeless Londoners from opening

• 1 in 5 Quebecers had trouble paying rent last year: study 

• How federal support could speed up homebuilding in the NWT

• Should Canada ban institutional investors from the housing market?

• How this Black-led charity is working to address youth homelessness in Peel Region

• Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing

• Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T., man is living in a tent waiting for public housing

• Transforming Vacant Lots Into Affordable Housing

• Hope Mission offers shelter space for vulnerable Edmontonians and their pets

• What's the affordable housing vacancy rate in Nova Scotia? No one knows for sure

• As the temperature drops, how are people who are experiencing homelessness coping? 

• Indigenous community to build new housing in Edmonton’s Ice District

• How homelessness happens, BC and Washington state agreement and Saskatchewan man on how his son and now his two grandkids are speedskating Olympians

• Dangerous weather conditions continue as homeless shelters reach capacity

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