Week in Review: September 5, 2025

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

Remembering Lynn Hannley

• EDify Magazine published an article remembering a lifetime member and one of the founders of ECOHH.

From ECOHH’s social media

• Even if Edmonton is only #16 in Canadian cities, the bottom line is that the rent is just too damn high in this country

• Five awesome new housing projects that probably won't make the news...

• The Centre for Public Legal Education (CPLEA) is inviting you and your colleagues to join our upcoming community consultations to help us improve resources for tenants and the organizations that support them in Alberta. For more information or to register go here.

• The master agreement signed by Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG) and City Council for the new downtown development was supposed to include housing, but "During the council meeting, not only did they admit that there's no legal requirement to build housing, the 2,500 number is barely even being dreamt of anymore...the agreement does not have a legal requirement to complete a single unit of housing before OEG will get money for the event park" (from the Taproot podcast here)

• How States and Cities Decimated Americans’ Lowest-Cost Housing Option

• Collaboration between ECOHH and Taproot Publishing has won a major international award.

  
  

Relevant housing news 

• Vienna's Model Shows the Government Really Can Guarantee Housing for All

• Timmins city council hires security guard for area with large encampment

• Veterans' House Canada new building will create 40 units for veterans in Edmonton.

• Trump's Answer to Homelessness and Poverty is Institutionalization

  
  

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