Ray Sullivan

Federal Election 2025 - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association CHRA Federal Election Campaign: Take action for community housing The upcoming federal election presents a crucial opportunity to push for real solutions

The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association is keeping track of housing commitments in the federal election: chra-achru.ca/federal-elec...

New report calls for Canada to double its non-market housing Non-market housing is permanent rental housing owned and managed by a non-profit organization, a co-operative, an Indigenous provider or a municipal or provincial government

Here’s a nation-building project i can get behind: New Report Calls for Canada to Double its Supply of Non-Market Housing

Build public housing for Canadians.

IMHO, a "Made In Canada" response to the economic threat from the US recognizes and prioritizes social stability as good for the economy, not the other way around.

Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada’s Path Forward - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada's Path Forward   Faced with economic threats and challenges to our sovereignty from the White House,

Faced with economic threats and challenges to our sovereignty from the White House, Canadians are scrambling for ways to create economic resiliency and protection against the coming instability. Read on:
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OPINION: Unmet promises put urban Indigenous last in line for housing For more than a decade, the Indigenous community housing professionals have been pushing for a national Indigenous housing strategy.

Unmet promises put urban Indigenous last in line for housing
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Stop talking about housing as a national emergency - and use the three Ps to get a grip on it We should stop talking about housing as a national emergency, writes Professor Duncan Maclennan

As usual, Duncan gets it right. He’s writing about Scotland, but the parallels to housing in Canada are spot on.
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion... www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada’s Path Forward - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association Housing, Jobs, and Economic Resilience: Canada's Path Forward   Faced with economic threats and challenges to our sovereignty from the White House,

Let’s face facts – our economy lacked resiliency before Trump 2.0, and his return to power is only making a bad situation worse.
Here’s what I’m thinking:
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60% of Canadians are correct.

61% of Canadians are correct.

With vacancy rates at their lowest in many cities - It is even more important to continue investing in preserving our assets and increasing supply @tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social @sullivanray.bsky.social @jasonthorne.bsky.social

Time for Tesla Tariffs Canada

Trump says America has ‘all the trees’ it needs. But fixing the housing crisis may mean depending on Canadian wood | CNN Business President Donald Trump has frequently quipped that “we don’t need” products from Canada.

Trump says America has ‘all the trees’ it needs. But fixing the housing crisis may mean depending on Canadian wood

Parking woes that axed N.L. housing part of ‘not in my backyard’ trend, experts say ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Concerns over a lack of parking that led councillors in St. John's, N.L., to axe a proposal for affordable housing last week are part of a

« The idea that your right to live in a neighbourhood that’s frozen in time is more important than someone else’s rights to have a home? This needs to shift. »

Pellerin: Ask your election candidates how they'll prevent renovictionshttps://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/pellerin-ask-your-election-candidates-how-theyll-prevent-renovictions

Dear Belmont neighbours: your “right” to a live on a block frozen in time does not trump someone else’s right to have a home.

‘This is the floor, not the ceiling’: More than 80,000 people were homeless in Ontario in 2024, report finds Children and young adults account for nearly 25 per cent of people experiencing chronic homelessness, the report said.

In Ontario, municipalities cover 51% of the costs to address homelessness. That’s the order of government with the least financial capacity. It’s not working. Time for the Province to step up.

Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing As rural, urban, and northern Indigenous housing providers and allies we can wait no longer. What's at stake is $2.8

Cut through the political noise, and focus on getting things done. Here’s an overdue and outstanding commitment on housing that needs your support.

Substack:
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Due To “Slavery Clause,” 30% Of LA Fires Are Being Fought By Inmates 30% of those battling the Los Angeles wildfires are Inmates firefighters. There maximum day rate of $10.24 is due to the 13th Amendment's 'Slavery Clause'. Is this fair?

30% Of LA fires are being fought by inmates

They’re being paid between 16¢ to 74¢ an hour.

They’re fed a bologna sandwich and an apple while fighting the fires.

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Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association Calls to Action on Indigenous Housing As rural, urban, and northern Indigenous housing providers and allies we can wait no longer. What's at stake is $2.8

Cut through the political noise, and focus on getting things done. Here’s an overdue and outstanding commitment on housing that needs your support.

I’m afraid of Americans

Beyond Left and Right: The Ideological Dimensions of Canadians and What it Means for 2025 - Abacus Data %

Worth a good read abacusdata.ca/abacus-data-...

Opinion: The homelessness epidemic is a health crisis, but also an economic one People can’t be expected to recover from addiction or live healthier lives if they don’t have a place to call home

The health costs of homelessness are massive. So are the economic costs.
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Justin Ling: This new Liberal minister has a tiny window of time to ease the housing crisis. He just might do it Nate Erskine-Smith is one of the rare Liberals who seems to have some idea of what to do about housing.

What should Nate Erskine-Smith make a priority in his short window as housing minister?
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Fall Economic Statement 2024: a missed opportunity - Canadian Housing & Renewal Association (December 16, 2024) - Today, the federal government presented the Fall Economic Statement. We know the ongoing and deepening housing crisis is a key

This government is taking their foot off the gas pedal, just when we need them to accelerate and beat the housing crisis
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Embargoed copies of the Fall Economic Statement were supposed to be released to journalists at 10 AM

(Chrystia Freeland announced her resignation at 9:07 AM)

It is now 12 noon and confused Finance Canada officials say they still don’t know when the FES (hidden under this cloth) will be released

Justin Ling: Chrystia Freeland’s exit seals it: Justin Trudeau’s government is falling apart Trudeau didn't just lose another cabinet minister Monday, he lost one leg of the rickety three-legged stool that runs his government.

Et tu, Brute?
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Sean Fraser to leave federal cabinet as PMO pushes to add Mark Carney | CBC News Housing Minister Sean Fraser will announce on Monday that he will not seek re-election in his Nova Scotia riding and will leave the federal cabinet during the next shuffle, CBC News has learned.

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#housers get it done. Invest in that success, and see core housing need drop.