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With the Vancouver Municipal election just days away, our partners from @BCNPHA's Housing Central team have developed a suite of resources to help voters engage in informed conversations about affordable housing & community housing solutions. Click the links below for more:
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Community Housing for Municipal Candidates: buff.ly/nL1wQkD
Municipal Elections for Community Housing Providers: buff.ly/qK70FJc
Community Housing at the Local Level—Tools & Resources: buff.ly/rbl0TJ3
More on the Resource Hub: buff.ly/aIvucIg
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Happening next week: Research in Progress webinar with TCLT's Chiyi Tam.
Learn how community-owned housing has kept Toronto’s Chinatown affordable for generations, why that system is at risk, and what’s needed to protect it.
Click below to register ⬇️
Our first research in progress webinar of the season is coming up!
At 10 AM on October 20, join Chiyi Tam from Toronto Chinatown Land Trust as she shares research findings from our recent Community Owned Housing in Toronto's Chinatown report.
Register: buff.ly/rbqxO3a
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Are you attending Housing Central? Don't forget to register for T26 - Mapping BC's Public Land to Unlock Affordable Housing! We'll be sharing some brand new features of the BC Public Land Map, and our plan for updating data for the future. Register: buff.ly/69cs6If
HRC's fall newsletter is out!
Click to learn more about our recent research, latest tools, upcoming and past events, and much more from @ubcHART, @BSHNode, and @HousingRsrch.
Read the full newsletter here: preview.mailerlite.io/previe…
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Our newest research project focuses on how municipal rules and processes impact the construction and cost of housing. With an issue that is so multi-faceted, we have to be honest about the tradeoffs being made with design, zoning, and planning regulation.
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Is home ownership still the dream?
UBC experts debated it. Our takeaway: market supply alone won’t make housing affordable. We need security of tenure for renters and intergovernmental action on core housing need, not ownership subsidies.
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At the #CLTSummit in Ottawa, held over the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, one question kept resurfacing: what does it mean to leave something behind for future generations?
Read our full reflections here: buff.ly/ToQpVQu
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Why don't affordable housing projects stay affordable? Yukon's new statutory covenant binds affordability rules to every future owner—not just the first. BSH is researching this model with Northern CLT, whose project helped catalyze the legislative change.
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Learn more from NCLT's Director, Sarah Newton at the #CLTSummit next week in Ottawa ➡️ buff.ly/5KuelfW
For more, read our recent blog: buff.ly/Uy457lu
Housing Research Collaborative retweeted
Our first research in progress webinar of the season is coming up!
At 10 AM on October 20, join Chiyi Tam from Toronto Chinatown Land Trust as she shares research findings from our recent Community Owned Housing in Toronto's Chinatown report.
Register: buff.ly/rbqxO3a
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The newest Canadian Housing Survey is out (2024 data), and it doesn't look good for renters.
1. Renting is getting harder to sustain. 40% of renters who recently moved are in unaffordable housing. Consider that figure a preview, because eventually, every renter has to move.
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2. Renters in the secondary market (condos, basement suites, etc) are paying more on average than renters in purpose-built apartments. Secondary market rentals are also the less secure one: a rented condo or house can be sold, or reclaimed for the owner's use, at any time.
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Listen to the latest episode of The Overhead w/ @SpacingRadio!
In this episode, Drs. Alina McKay & Colin Phillips talk about the physical and systemic barriers facing people living with a disability who are trying to access housing in Canada.
Listen now: buff.ly/BUwof2j
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The #housing crisis needs more than incremental fixes. It needs a rights-based reckoning. The BSH network identified 4 core problems holding back #affordablehousing & what it will take to fix them.
Explore the report: buff.ly/606OBWy
Read the blog: buff.ly/8x8bnYe
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Can you afford an extra $560/month on housing? Despite all the talk about rents falling, new @CMHC_ca/@StatCan_eng data shows tenants who have to move from an average two-bedroom in Vancouver can expect to pay $560 more per month to find another place. It's $490 more in Toronto.
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That applies to anyone moving for a new job, a kid's school, or away from a bad situation. Rents may be falling in those cities (and rising in others), but there's still an enormous gap trapping renters in long commutes, bad relationships, or substandard housing.
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Research from @CAEHomelessness shows that as lower-cost rentals become more expensive, homelessness goes up. Across Canada, there is just a 1.6% vacancy rate for rentals under $750/month, and homelessness has surged over 100% in the last several years.
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Without a clear, consistent, and measurable strategy to provide and protect affordable housing, we will only see rising poverty and homelessness in our communities.
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For governments that want to meaningfully address this mobility and affordability issue, our policy implications are a great place to start: buff.ly/VPZsUCn
Data: buff.ly/3oW6Opv
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