Preserving Low‑Rent Housing Podcast Episode · New Housing Alternatives · 2025-12-19 · 25m

Today, NHAs' podcast speaks with Steve Pomeroy about the rapid loss of low-rent housing.

Across Canada, 11 affordable homes are lost for every 1 built.

We talk about what communities and gov’s are doing to protect these much-needed homes, & what more can be done.
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Yesterday, Bill 60 passed, rolling back many tenant protections.

NHAs' new analysis focuses on 6 major changes under Bill 60.

It explores how each will erode tenant protections & further fuel Ontario's homelessness crisis. 🧵👇

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A concise overview of budget 2025.

“The new Build Canada Homes program…[is] more of a pilot program than a generational investment. The 4k homes to be started under BCH next year is small potatoes relative to needs."

3/4's of the headline housing investment "is a carryover from previous budgets."

Federal budget falls short on housing affordability, experts say Academics and builders’ associations say the Liberal government has watered down its election pledges

“It very well could be a good start, but my concern is that it’s not going to scale up fast enough. The fiscal commitment is pretty weak … it’s not what I would think of as a generational investment.” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe... @marclee.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

New from NHAs' blog: our analysis of Ontario's Bill 60.

Bill 60, as proposed, will make it easier & faster to evict tenants.

We explore 6 proposed changes, showing how they will erode tenants protections & further fuel Ontario's homelessness crisis 👇🧵
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Proud to have authored a letter with @nodemovictions.bsky.social, co-signed by 134 orgs, demanding that Premier Ford repeal #Bill60 — which we call the "Create Encampments Faster" Act.

Ontario can't afford even weaker rental protections and more homelessness.

Read: tinyurl.com/StopBill60

Financial firms file for eviction more than any other Toronto landlord, new research finds The research looked at more than 200,000 evictions and found financial firms pursue evictions at a rate 1.5 times higher than chain landlords and 2.5 times more than single-building landlords.

A few huge financial firms are buying up Toronto's purpose-built rental, 📈from 14% to 24% of all units 2010-21.

Starlight & CAPREIT alone own almost half.

They're aggressively filing evictions at rates 2.5X >than single-building owners & 1.5X >than corporate chains.
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Filling the Gaps: An Analysis of Evictions Filing in the Greater Toronto Area from 2010-2021 A new report from BSH analyzes evictions filings to better understand the impact of housing financialization on housing security. The research, which focuses on the GTA, reveals that treating…

New BSH research, by @seangrisdale.bsky.social, analyzing 385,000+ eviction filings in the GTA (2010-2021) reveals how financialized landlords are systematically undermining housing security & exacerbating inequalities across the region.

Read the full report: buff.ly/ZY6GQYS
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Making housing affordable isn’t just about reducing prices. It’s also about raising incomes.

On both fronts, we're going the wrong way fast.

Across 🇨🇦, “the income gap between wealthy & low-income households has reached a record high" finds NHA's Ricardo Tranjan.

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Proposed Brampton bylaw aims to protect rental housing supply An affordable housing advocacy group says the proposed bylaw doesn’t go far enough to protect tenants.

Brampton is preparing a bylaw to prevent the loss of affordable rental apartments.

Developers that demolish or convert rental units could soon be required to replace them & provide tenants “right of return”.

But ACORN is pushing to strengthen the policy👇
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CMHC's New Housing Supply Framework: Moving the Goalposts While Missing the Point  | Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)

Great @ubchart.bsky.social brief on CMHCs new Housing Supply Framework

CMHCs revised targets:
(1) Set 60-70% of income as an acceptable housing affordability standard for major Canadian cities
(2) Emphasize market supply-alone solutions & neglect financialization
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Kitchener renoviction bylaw to stop the ‘hell that people are going through’ is a step closer The City of Kitchener moves to combat renovictions through a new rental renovation licensing bylaw, facing debates on jurisdiction and potential impact.

City of Kitchener is moving forward with legislation protecting tenants from renovictions.

Congrats to ACORN for showing the power of tenants when they organize.

www.therecord.com/news/council...

Tomorrow

An actually affordable housing project is rising in a former Kensington Market parking lot - Toronto Life The 78-unit mass timber building follows eight years of work between advocates and the city

Great to see @kmclt.bsky.social begin construction on 78 supportive homes in Kensington Market.

Another small step for Mayor Chow's plan to build 65k rent-controlled homes on city-owned sites by 2030.

Another big leap for Canada's fast-growing Community Land Trusts.
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‘It’s a plague’: Advocates renew calls for renoviction bylaw in Kitchener On Monday, more than a dozen housing advocates took their fight to Kitchener City Hall, renewing their calls for a renoviction bylaw.

54% of eviction notices in Waterloo Region in the past 5 years were for renovation or demolition, according to a survey by NHA partner, ACORN.

“It’s a plague…that’s why you see other municipalities [passing renoviction bylaws]…& that’s what we need Kitchener to do.”

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Have the Doors Closed on New BC Supportive Housing? | The Tyee Vancouver killed a Kitsilano project after fierce legal opposition from neighbours. Where might this lead?

3 months ago, Vancouver stopped approving supportive-housing projects

Last month, the City quashed a 129-unit (1/2 supportive) project, approved for rezoning in 2022

“This was an instream project. To see the city back away is concerning”

All amidst a homelessness crisis
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International Commentaries on Preserving Affordable Homeownership - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy This collection of six global commentaries reflects on the Preserving Affordable Homeownership Policy Focus Report published by the Lincoln Institute in partnership with the International Center for C...

Check out Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's new report on the global Community Land Trust movement.

It features a chapter by NHA partners Dominique Russell (Kensington Market CLT) & Sue Bunce (UofT), which explores the growth of CLTs across Canada.

www.lincolninst.edu/publications...

The Great Sell Off - How Our Homes Became Someone Else's Business Canada's housing system is broken. This report explains how financialization severed the link between incomes and home prices—and why old solutions won't fix it.

Highly recommend this new data-heavy, policy-oriented, very readable 80+page report.

It tracks the📈role of financialization & investor ownership in decoupling 🇨🇦 home prices from incomes since the 90s.

Happy to see my research adding to this important analysis.
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