Week in Review: November 7, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• Maria Dunn is a strong friend of ECOHH with a deep commitment to the right of every person to adequate housing. She has often offered songs as part of ECOHH events, going back to Homefest days. And during the awful days of late 2023-early 2024 when the enhanced assault on people seeking to survive outside began and ECOHH called on Edmontonians to come out and bear witness as these actions took place, Maria was there, day after day, in the coldest of winter. She has just released a new album and several of the songs explore the importance of home and the mistreatment of people who are without housing. One song is based on one of the people in ECOHH treasurer Eric Rice's documentary "This is where we live."  Highly recommended.

• New report exposes how lack of resources and support take their toll on health care workers dealing with Alberta’s growing toxic drug crisis

• Germany runs community drawers in outdoor walls - clothes and tools swapped quietly by passcode access.

• Iceland installs micro-housing hubs between urban alleys - foldable, solar-lit pods for temporary shelter with a heated mattress strip

• FRAPRU news release re federal budget

• National Right to Housing Network news release re federal budget

• Canadian Housing and Renewal Association news release re federal budget

• Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness news release re federal budget

• Edmonton Housing Month

• Federal government announces projects to end homelessness

• A school-based early intervention approach to preventing homelessness

Relevant housing news 

• Mark Carney and Doug Ford keep serving Big Landlords

• Ontario Cities Are Clearing Homeless Encampments. Where Are People Supposed to Go?

• New Edmonton city council votes unanimously to create more daytime shelter spaces

• The Supreme Court of Canada Wants You to Call 911 if Someone Is Overdosing

• What does latest federal budget have planned for housing?

• Thunder Bay, Ont., social housing manager launches new system to track homelessness

• New Edmonton mayor makes first motion to bolster day shelter spaces

• 73% of Albertans struggle to buy food, clothing: Salvation Army report

• Managed Encampment Sites Could Help Winnipeg’s Homeless

• N.S. NDP leader becomes housing critic, says government doing nothing to solve crisis

• Closing encampments won’t solve homelessness: N.S. affordable housing association

• Housing NWT will not provide encampments with fire extinguishers

• Q&A: What can YK learn from a Toronto church encampment?

• Yellowknife given $900K to enhance Street Outreach program

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