Week in Review: June 13, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• Toolkit for housing advocacy

• Send a letter to remind the federal government Canada's housing problems will not be solved unless we build a lot of social housing!

• ECOHH is partnering with Taproot to bring attention to housing issues during the municipal election this autumn. Please take a minute to answer this question:

  • “What issues do you care about as you consider who to vote for in the 2025 municipal election, and why?”

• Whether you missed the memorial service for people who died in 2024 due to homelessness, or were there and would like to experience it again, this link is to a recording by Paula Kirman.

Relevant housing news 

• ECOHH is a partnering with Taproot Edmonton to ask our members to answer the following question: What issues do you care about as you consider who to vote for in the 2025 municipal election, and why?” This is our opportunity to help ensure that housing and homelessness stay top of mind as an election issue. Please consider answering the questions and sharing with your community. 

• Elderly homeless population increasing in Canada: ‘I really don’t know where to even begin’

• Apartments are allowed to be dangerously hot in Toronto. City still studying options

• Renters live in fear as corporations buy up buildings

• Toronto tenant fears homelessness amid alleged ‘bad faith’ eviction

• How non profit housing corporations are accessing public dollars to save buildings with affordable rent

• New report shows more private homes won’t end Quebec’s housing crisis — it could make it worse

• Ontario anti-encampment law punishes the homeless, avoids long-term solutions: critics

• 'So much more positive': Leaving downtown to use a homeless space gave this woman hope

• 'You definitely can't arrest your way out of this': northeastern Ontario police not rushing to use new powers

• 'The most affordable housing we have, is the affordable housing we've already got'

• A program meant to help keep housing affordable is underway in B.C.

• To create affordable housing, Ottawa needs to increase density, prof says

• New Brunswick not properly maintaining public housing stock, says auditor

• ‘Scant progress’ offloading federal office space for affordable housing: AG

• New Brunswick’s 3% rent cap to remain through end of fiscal year: housing minister

• Ontario housing starts at lowest level since 2009, financial watchdog says

• Toronto housing among least affordable on this global index. Here’s what experts say needs to change

• Dismantlement of Notre-Dame Street homeless encampment paused

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