Week in Review: October 17, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• Turning Art into Action: Inside Leah den Bok’s 10-Year Journey to End Homelessness

• The Liberals committed billions of dollars to tackle the housing crisis — and it’s up to us to make sure that money gets invested in people, not corporate developers. Take action now

• CMHC has released its housing design catalogue, with claims to make building houses simpler and less expensive. What do you think?

• On World Homeless Day, we're calling on the federal government to choose solutions that make ending homelessness a national priority. Take action now

Relevant housing news 

• Poll finds Edmontonians want new city council focused on housing affordability. What changed since last vote?

• Not enough places for homeless people to go during the day

• How to deal with the people who show up time and again at hospital emergency....house them

• Solving homelessness takes more than just roofs over heads

• Kingston students grapple with fourth highest rent in Canada

• Here’s how much you need to make to comfortably afford rent in Ottawa

• Toronto’s homeless population has doubled since 2021, with more seniors than ever

• What’s poetry’s role in the housing crisis?

• Homeless count estimates 170+ youth face homelessness nightly

• New Brunswick to spend $7.4 million in emergency funding to help homeless people

• ‘Very sad moment’: Toronto clears another homeless encampment, citing fire hazard

• Federal government launches design catalogue to speed up housing development

• 2025 count reveals sharp rise in homelessness in Okanagan, Shuswap

• Could Montreal’s rent prices kill the arts scene?

• Cluster of vacant lots on Winnipeg's Furby Street a missed opportunity for affordable housing: residents

• Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast advocates question drop in numbers from B.C.'s 2025 homeless count

• Residential care facilities in Hamilton in ‘crisis,’ say researchers, as report set to make recommendation

• N.W.T. government, feds commit $5.5M to fix social housing units

• Work to start on Ottawa Inuit Women's shelter

• Saint John homeless encampments are moving, but where to isn't clear

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