Week in Review: July 11, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• AISH recipients and others will see large rent increases with Civida due to provincial government regulation changes. (Note, these rent increases will not apply to MLAs, who recently game themselves an accommodation allowance increase....)

• Interview by recent Order of Canada recipient about homelessness

• Storying Truths of Indigenous Homelessness

Relevant housing news 

• AISH recipients in community housing will see rent hike under new Alberta regulations

• Podcast on the accessibility of Edmonton’s community housing for people with disabilities: Accessing Home 

• Toronto's unhoused population reaches 'crisis' level, more than doubling in 3 years: survey

• Rents easing across most major markets but many tenants not feeling relief: CMHC

• Credit fund aims to alleviate decades-long Indigenous housing crisis

•  'We didn't see this coming,' says shelter operator dropped by province

• Laurentian University launches new housing innovation hub to try to find solutions to housing crisis

• Montreal will not agree to stop dismantling homeless encampments, despite new report

• Montreal housing becoming increasingly unaffordable, despite lull

• MKO Grand Chief speaks about wildfire evacuees and housing challenges in Winnipeg

• City Hall encampment protesters forced to move from shaded park to concrete amid heat wave

• Canada has a new housing minister with a big plan for the country

• Quebec has rent control. So why are apartment prices still soaring?

• People on AISH who live in community housing will face a rent increase

• Evicted motel tenants 'teetering on the edge of homelessness' after plans fall through

• CBC News Network's Kris Reyes speaks with community housing expert Joseph MacLean

• Hundreds of social housing units sit vacant across Saskatchewan

• Advocates demand new encampment strategy to tackle housing crisis in Regina

• A volatile supply: how organizations are responding to constantly evolving street drugs

• Chatham-Kent’s largest homeless encampment is being broken up this month

• Growing rural homeless population facing unique challenges, researchers say

• More than 600 individuals, organizations send letter calling on Ontario to reverse needle distribution ban

• Canmore moves forward with below-market housing project amid continued affordability crisis

• Despite new housing units, this family says finding a place is still a challenge in Watson Lake, Yukon

• Vancouver rents down by nearly 5%, but many tenants not feeling relief

• Temporary housing unaffordable for organ transplant patients, say charities

• Toronto needs more housing. Are garden suites a potential solution?

• Inside Chatham's encampment, confused people ask where they can go before Monday eviction

• Elders in Nunavut say old age security too low to cover cost of living

• Timmins homeless shelter plan stalls as no operators apply

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