Week in Review: July 4, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• Homelessness prevention opportunity

• Taproot-ECOHH project nominated for prize

• Tell Mark Carney: We need federal rent control now!

Relevant housing news 

• Edmonton aims to set homeless shelter limits, locations through zoning bylaw

• Tribunal rules that lack of washroom access for Sudbury’s homeless isn’t a human rights case

• City warns of surge in homeless population by 2035

• How Canadian hospitals are trying to break the cycle of readmissions for homeless patients

• N.B. opioid deaths involving fentanyl at all-time high, says Public Health

• Despite urgent need, new women's shelter spaces in Quebec held up by bureaucracy

• Quebec moving day struggles highlight need for social housing, advocates say

• Court grants delay on dismantling homeless encampment in Montreal’s east end

• Data says share of income spent on housing, transportation in Halifax comparable to Toronto

• Why 'build, baby build' won't be enough to fix housing

• Heat in southern Manitoba puts vulnerable populations at risk

• Cooling centres open in Fredericton for those without shelter

• Why are Ottawa rent prices so high?

• After fighting for repairs for almost 10 years, this Halifax tenant says the system is broken

• B.C. to look at removing supportive housing facilities from Residential Tenancy Act

• Ottawa opens transitional housing centre in vacant downtown office space 

• Victoria’s Alliance to End Homelessness shutting down after 17 years

• What could our province learn from Vienna's affordable housing innovations?

Should there be a maximum indoor temperature in rental housing?