Week in Review: September 26, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• Voting and homelessness

• Failing to address homelessness as a structural issue

• Housing and the Good Society with Akuah Frempong

• Prevention of youth homelessness- seminar

• A smaller jurisdiction develops a response to homelessness

• Glasgow rent strike

Relevant housing news 

• New homeless count points to eviction as leading cause

• Trump Administration Threatens Housing for Millions in “War on the Poor”

• Toronto shelters 'dehumanizing,' say advocacy groups pushing for urgent accessibility fixes

• Advocates say asylum seekers facing dire housing choices as federal hotel funding ends 

• Should we track the number of homeless people who die every year?

• As city looks to clear encampment in Dufferin Grove Park, residents demand permanent housing

• Montreal opens first modular housing project for people experiencing homelessness

• Homeless seniors growing concern in Calgary

• Guilt, low pay, distress: What it's like working the frontlines of the homelessness crisis

• Namerind’s 5th annual homelessness conference brings out hundreds

• Saint John, N.B., makes changes to homeless encampments zone plan

• Rents are rising, but what does that mean for people moving to the city for it's affordability and how does the next generation feeling about it all?

• Build Canada Homes aims to build 4,000 housing units on federal land, including in Edmonton: Carney

• Montreal says new housing fund will help create 6,300 non-market units in 10 years

• Small-town initiative in N.B. helps homeless go ‘from unhoused to housed’

• 'I can't really afford much anymore': Sask. residents feel pinch of rising rental rates

• Low-income seniors in Windsor facing rent hikes fearful about the future

• Windsor-Essex needs a lot more affordable housing, report finds, but just 264 units were built in 6 years

• Homeless shelters are safe havens. But what if it’s near your house?

• Graham Singh of St-Jax: "We've got to find solutions to this. These are human beings, living on the streets."

• Homeless report makes case that investments are working, but more are needed

• Winnipeg approves new limits on the placement of encampments

• Man living in vehicle in Moose Jaw, Sask., dies while waiting for shelter spot

• Housing Solutions

• Cambridge council votes down motion asking for report into encampment evictions in extreme weather

• Homelessness emerges as key issue in Montreal election

• How tiny homes on wheels could become legal in some B.C. communities

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