WEEK OF JULY 22 2024 NEWSREEL WITH VANESSA TOPPLE
This week we examine misconceptions concerning purpose built rental development. It’s a lot more than a supply and demand issue! Numerous factors aren’t being addressed to achieve the numbers required and even if they did, there is no guarantee affordability would be met....
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This week – looking back on her first year in office, it’s fair to say that Toronto mayor Olivia Chow has some successes and some failures but one thing is certain, she loves the attention....
read moreWEEK OF JULY 8 2024 NEWSREEL WITH VANESSA TOPPLE
This week, three different reports with the conclusion that the housing industry is precarious, both now and in the future. We discuss reports from RBC on new construction, an Angus Reid poll on immigration and third, from StatsCan on population....
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This week a government program negatively affecting housing. The Federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program and its abuses....
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A look at Federal government regulations and policies – how they haven’t moved the needle on housing and a recent article summarizing that the solution is for government to get out of the housing industry completely. ...
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From rent control to renoviction policies – local government are working overtime to implement new policies with little to no regard for unintended consequences and the furthering of the housing crisis. ...
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The government loudly proclaimed the launch of another program intended to address affordable housing, they also quietly made changes to another program – why? ...
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Another week, another report and this one from the National Housing Council on affordable housing is less than impressive with typical recommendations....
read moreWEEK OF MAY 27 2024 NEWSREEL WITH VANESSA TOPPLE
Getting to the six month mark of 2024, the housing crisis as we’ve been covering, is still having major issues. One issue supposedly dealt with has not only continued but according to StatsCan is resurfacing as a problem especially for certain provinces.
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CMHC released its annual report. The report showed how its meeting the mandates of the NHS which is the 10-year plan launched in 2017 by the federal government. So, what are we to draw from their conclusions – well like the housing crisis we’re in – government intervention is having an impact on the results.
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