Rental costs are out of control in cities across the country. We broke down what you need to earn to afford an apartment in every neighborhood in Canada.

Rents are increasingly disconnected from wages. Governments need to strengthen rent control in response.

Part 1: Rent control, rent freezes, vacancy controls—the terms can be hard to keep track of. This is your reference guide.

Part 2: In theory, Canada’s most populous province has protection for tenants. In practice, landlords can find lots of ways to hike up rents.

Part 3: Landlords systematically use AGI applications to bypass provincial guidelines

Part 4: Landlords and developers love scientific-sounding arguments against rent control. There’s just one problem—they’re not true.

Part 5: The policy solutions to skyrocketing rents are quite straightforward—but enacting them means taking on the power of landlords and developers

Part 6: Tenants in Ontario have resources available to defend themselves against landlords—and against bad-faith anti-tenant arguments. Here are a few of them.

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With an election looming on the horizon, might we be nearing the end of the Liberal-NDP agreement?

If the feds are serious about tackling non-compliant Airbnb-type rentals, they should go after the platforms, not just the users

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks up housing and affordability while austerity looms

Interest rate hikes are behind the collapse of new housing

Now that the summer break is over, the federal government is back in session amidst a cost-of-living crisis.

With that kind of money, developers could buy 60,000 brand new Cadillacs — or 100 high-end private jets

Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on affordable housing and homelessness