Week in Review: June 6, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• New guidebook from National Housing Advocate on respecting human rights while working with people who are living in informal shelters

• A message from ACORN Alberta:

  • WHAT: Housing Justice Campaign Planning Meeting

  • WHEN: Wednesday, June 4th at 7:00 PM

  • WHERE: Online – REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/WIN4TENANTS

  • THIS IS NOT JUST ANY OLD ACTION PLANNING MEETING! We are going to WIN 4 Tenants—it's just a matter of time.

  • Most provinces have a rent cap, and it works. Most provinces have leases that automatically roll over, giving tenants real housing security—something Alberta tenants do not have.

  • Implementing a rent cap and basic tenant protections will work for Alberta, and ACORN won't stop until we win!

• A new report grades each province on progress with more and better housing. Alberta gets a D+

Relevant housing news 

• Migrants are building Canada’s homes—while getting blamed for housing policy failures

• It’s Time to Let Tenants Unionize and Bargain Collectively

• Subsidized social housing promotes economic well-being for Canadian renters, new study finds

• Kelowna’s New Tent City Policies ‘Make People Want to Give Up’

• Memorial event mourns Edmonton's hundreds of dead homeless

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

• Red Deer shelter 'bursting at the seams' as homelessness grows in central Alberta city

• My family lived in a hotel for a year. I wish people understood homelessness isn't a choice

• From the forest to city hall: Hamilton encampment residents protest lack of housing options

• More people are being priced out of the housing market. These non-profit groups are trying to help

• Quebecers can wait years to get into co-op housing. So why isn't there more?

• ‘What we can offer is speed’: Modular housing business owner on tackling supply

• Sudbury homeless crisis hits record high amid warmer weather

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

• Audit finds ‘disjointed’ supportive housing programs and services in City of Ottawa

• 2 opposition MPPs have created a plan to solve Ontario's homelessness crisis in 10 years. Could it work?

• Northeastern Ontario food banks, health units call for government to address rising food insecurity

• Downtown developers partner with MacEwan University to offer discounted rent to students

• Montreal protesters demand rent control measures ahead of moving day

• B.C. reviewing home-sharing program for adults with developmental disabilities

• Grande Prairie disability advocates frustrated with province

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