Supply-side housing economics ignores a number of important factors

There is no province in Canada where workers can afford an apartment at minimum wage. The neighborhood-level data paints a dire picture of out-of-control rents.

Tenants across the country are feeling the pinch from landlords. Just how bad is it where you live?

As it stands, the province relies on small non-profits for data collection—we need more to address the crisis.

It’s time for the provincial government to step up for tenants

Bill 31 would remove some significant rights from tenants, and hand over more discretionary power to landlords

Ricardo Tranjan's latest book, The Tenant Class, asks you to pick a side. Do you stand in solidarity with the rising tenant class, or will you uphold the exploitative status quo?

There is so much talk about housing insecurity in this country. Yet governments allow payday lenders to set up shop in neighbourhoods where high rents perpetuate financial insecurity.

Bewildered by the high cost of housing? Wondering how we got to this place in Canada? To understand why we’re here now, we need to look back thirty years to policy decisions being made in the early 1990s.

Canada is experiencing a permanent rental housing affordability crisis, which has only intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic began. At the same time, we’re seeing a greater consolidation of rental housing apartments by financial firms, accelerating the “financialization of rental housing,” a trend underway in Canada since the 1990s.

A look at what the provincial party platforms do for renters

38% of households in Canada rent their homes. So why isn't more attention paid to the investors who control up to one third of Canada's rental housing stock?

Our analysis of the 2022 federal budget

This budget could herald the beginning of a Pearsonian period of progressive policy making

Twenty-six per cent of higher inflation for Canadian households is being driven by excess profits