Week in Review: October 31, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• Federal government announces projects to end homelessness

• A school-based early intervention approach to preventing homelessness

• Homelessness is terrible in Alberta's larger cities, but it is a very real reality in rural areas as well.

• This announcement is a reminder that some people need a range of supports as part of providing their right to adequate housing. This is part of the right to health care as well.

• A Quebec organization similar to ECOHH offers a clear reminder that much more than minimal shelter is needed to meet the right to adequate housing. There is much to do.

• The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has some ideas for the federal government about housing in advance of next week's budget. 

• Everyone needs to be watching closely to see if the federal budget will provide the resources needed to address the huge shortfall in social housing in Canada: https://www.frapru.qc.ca/budget-federal-4nov/

Relevant housing news 

• Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada

• The US Is Criminalizing Homelessness and Expanding Incarceration. Who Profits?

• Housing crisis impacts those looking to flee domestic violence, research shows

• Province rejects rent control as NDP highlight senior struggles

• On the campaign trail: Can Montreal fix its housing crisis?

• 'Absolute garbage': Sask. physician blasts plans to add involuntary addictions treatment

• City of Winnipeg details plan to clear homeless encampments starting mid-November

• How do you work from home when you are homeless?

• Say goodbye to rent control, indefinite leases if Ontario passes housing proposal: advocates

• How changes to tenants' rights could affect Ottawa

• Province defunds Toronto’s last supervised consumption site outside downtown core

• As homelessness rises in Abbotsford, B.C., advocates say housing and resources are not keeping pace

• Spike in Saskatoon homeless encampments ‘heartbreaking,’ NDP says

• N.W.T. committee report has more than 40 recommendations to improve public housing system

• Are homes in the GTA becoming... affordable?

• N.W.T. housing minister not sure gov’t should be ones to provide public housing

• Thunder Bay Police Inspector Jason Rybak: Housing Safety

• Staff housing shortage ‘is leaving classrooms without teachers’

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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