Week in Review: May 23, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• SPORT-RELATED GENTRIFICATION: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism

• Storying Truths of Indigenous Homelessness

Relevant housing news 

• Social housing is an investment that pays off, study shows

• Week of action launched by Montreal housing groups to highlight rental crisis

• Canadian government has to allow home prices to fall to make housing more affordable, experts say

• Rising rent forcing tenants to leave, calls for new rules

• ‘Financial landlords’ driving up rent prices in Toronto faster than other types of landlords: study

• Encampments: Time to crack down or find a different solution?

• Students at Ottawa U warn about a “student housing crisis”

• Saskatoon mayor talks future of housing

• Building new housing projects while preserving the neighbourhood

• Collingwood goes from NIMBY to YIMBY

• Edmonton city council passes rezoning bylaw for priority growth areas

• Mark Carney promised affordable housing. Will he deliver?

• What's behind Metro Vancouver's housing market slowdown?

• Affordable Housing Wishlist

• Heritage to housing: Non-profit group wants to build micro dwellings in downtown St. John's

• Which landlords in Toronto are hiking rents the most

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