Week in Review: June 27, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• In 2026 ECOHH will mark 40 years of activity as the voice for advocacy and policy action related to housing security in the Edmonton area. 

  • We are wanting to ensure that history is documented and so are gathering archival material. If you have anything you think would be useful to ensure the full story of ECOHH's activity is assembled, please get in touch with Jim Gurnett (jimgurnett@yahoo.ca) to let him know what you might have and make arrangements for it to be passed along. This project will ensure that valuable information does not become lost as people move or move on. Paper documents, photos, electronic files, and other items are all of interest.

• City of Edmonton & Treaty 8 agreement on housing

• Culturally Based Approaches to Indigenous Homelessness Prevention

Relevant housing news 

• City formalizes commitment to supporting Indigenous-led housing with Treaty 8

• Home sweet home

• As rent strike passes 2 years, Thorncliffe Park landlords push for mass eviction

• Rents dropping across Canada, but still above pre-COVID rates

• Chow calls for review of heat relief strategy as advocates demand city restore cooling centres

• Four Years After the BC Heat Dome, What Have We Learned?

• April sees increase in toxic drug deaths in B.C., as coroner reports 165 fatalities

• Future of downtown development to be debated over 2 days at Edmonton public hearing

• Canada is facing a housing crisis. Could it take a page from Europe?

• More housing units coming to two Nunavut communities

• Supportive housing complex in Sydney offers stability for vulnerable people

• Fire calls to encampments on the rise

• Struggling to find a place to live by moving day? Here’s how to get help

• Should neighbours be able to block housing projects?

• Residents of Coquitlam homeless encampment issued formal eviction notice

• Montreal asking rents up nearly 71% in six years, according to Statistics Canada

• CBU researchers say housing crisis in 2 communities worse than federal stats suggest

• NWT Minister of housing Lucy Kuptana on who is responsible for providing services to the encampment in Yellowknife

• Rural homelessness is a small piece of the puzzle in Sarnia-Lambton — but remains a concern

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