Week in Review: March 13, 2026

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that we noticed this week:

From ECOHH’s social media

• AB government funding for seniors housing

• How to Stop the Incarceration-to-Homelessness Pipeline for Indigenous Men: The Sagatay Program Model

• The Vacant Home Tax program in Toronto

• Energy efficiency and housing cost seminar

• The Re:Vita group is undertaking the Chinatown Community Housing Initiative, inviting people who live, work, or spend time in the Chinatown area to share ideas about housing and the future of the neighbourhood. They want input to guide designs for action, so development decisions are not made without community voices. For information about how you can contribute, contact them at housing@chinatownrevita.ca or via Instagram (@homeinchinatown).

• ECOHH has been dedicated to the human right to decent housing for 40 years. Come help us celebrate!

• The Walrus talks opiods

• Homelessness Reduction Innovation Fund - closes March 13

• Read ECOHH's comments on the new Alberta budget

• City of Edmonton Rent Ready courses

• This event may be of interest to people wanting to be well-informed about housing matters in Edmonton

• The financialization of rental housing is a significant factor in rent costs. Here is some information compiled by ECOHH demonstrating the extent of this issue in Edmonton

• St. John's funding gives momentum to Duckworth Street housing project

• Republicans and Democrats Are United in Their War on the Unhoused

Relevant housing news 

• Bad Housing Is Turning Us into Bad Neighbours

• Rents in Canada have fallen to a 33-month low, report finds

• The official release of our research report, Restoring Dignity: Mutual Aid Workers’ Experiences with Community Resistance and Hate! 

• Boyle Street housing program to lose Alberta government funding, province seeks new provider

• Centre of Recovery Excellence using health information of people who use drugs to undermine their safety

• Opinion: Let's use social innovation to tackle homelessness in Edmonton

• Average apartment rents drop 4.4% in Alberta – steepest decline in Canada

• Reflecting on homelessness in Saint John

• St. John’s food banks, shelters say demand for their services keeps going up

• New powers to ban weapons and remove disruptive residents are coming to B.C. supportive housing

• Some reactions from a committee meeting about a report on housing conditions

• Montreal comedians tackling the housing crisis with humour

• How a funding pause is creating strain in B.C.'s community housing sector

• A documentary and panel discussion about solving homelessness in Yellowknife

• N.W.T.'s housing report points out a lack of community housing

• NIMBYs target densification and development

• Woman says her entire income will now go to rent after HRM expropriated her home

• NDP plan to expand Manitoba rent control protections

• Housing NWT builds four social housing units in Fort McPherson

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