Week in Review: July 18, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• The Invisibility Trap: The Paradoxical Effect of Making Homelessness Invisible

• How would Edmonton do using this scorecard? Are we respecting the human rights of the people in the city who are homeless and living in informal settlements?

• NiGiNan's work will be the focus of this program

• Membership at ECOHH provides the opportunity to gather and collaborate with a diverse group that all share the common vision of safe, appropriate, affordable housing for all Edmontonians. Learn more about what ECOHH does here. As ECOHH is a volunteer coalition, our annual membership drive is our primary source of ongoing funding.

  • 1. Complete the form linked on our website. eccoh.ca

  • 2. Send an e-transfer to ecohhmembership@gmail.com. If you need to make alternate arrangements, please contact edmhousingcoalition@gmail.com, as the ability to pay is not meant to be a barrier to joining.

Relevant housing news 

• Government of Alberta news release: Building affordable homes for Albertans 

• Unsanitary conditions, rooms without locks among 'failures' at shelter sites, says official

• Housing advocates gather for mock ceremony of ‘worst’ London landlords

• Saskatoon targets bigger role in addressing homelessness crisis with new strategy

• Halifax tenants in 'precarious housing situations' band together to fight renovictions

• Thousands go from jail to being homeless in Ontario every year, report finds

• Quebec to allow roommates in low-income housing

• Debate on forced mental health treatment continues as one woman's costs top $800K

• Sudbury man loses a human rights complaint to require 24/7 access to washrooms and sinks for the homeless

• Inner-city councillor wants encampments banned from Winnipeg playgrounds, splash pads, pools

• Homeless Regina man calls for vacant social housing units to be put into use

• Housing starts are on the rise in Edmonton

• City says building on green space is a solution for Yellowknife's housing shortage

• 'We've been looking for almost a year': Why Sask.'s housing market is red hot

• BILD Edmonton Metro pushing for more action to use annexed land for growing population

• Toronto risks losing $30M in federal funding after vote against sixplexes citywide

• Montreal should care for homeless people better, stop taking down encampments, new reports says

• Former CRAB Park residents are going mobile with a "cooling bus"

• City councillors exploring micro-shelters as homelessness crisis in Toronto soars

• 'Overwhelmed' Toronto senior nearly evicted as a result of Service Canada error with old age benefit

• Eliminating interprovincial trade barriers would add 30,000 annual housing starts: CMHC

• Canine parvovirus concerns over at community housing complex

• Dueling protests flare up outside Toronto city hall over homeless shelters

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