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Affordable housing leadership

Increase federal and provincial funding to support municipal action

by WHITZMAN C, FLYNN A, GURSTEIN P, JONES C
Published in July 2022 - Page 24

Canada is in a housing crisis. Increased housing needs and homelessness, fuelled by the net loss of affordable housing, has become a top political priority. In 2018, almost 1.7 million Canadian households were in core housing need, meaning that they:

  • lived in housing that cost more than 30 percent of their household income; and/or
  • was overcrowded or in poor repair.

By 2021, that core housing need had increased to 1.8 million households, despite

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