Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2024

Average asking rents in Canada reached $2,185 in June as growth slows to 7%
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/average-asking-rents-in-canada-reached-2-185-in-june-as-growth-slows-to-seven-per-cent-report-1.6957225

* overall, asking rents for purpose-built rental apartments in June 2024 jumped 11% compared with a year earlier to reach an average of $2,121
* led by Saskatchewan with a 22.1 per cent gain to reach $1,339. Ontario

#Canada #housing #RentalUnits #apartments #rent #inflation #AffordableHousing #corporations #PrivateEquity #capitalism #homelessness

Average asking rents in Canada reached $2,185 in June as growth slows to seven per cent: report

A new report says the average asking rent for a home in Canada reached $2,185 in June, up seven per cent compared with a year ago despite representing the slowest annual rate of growth in 13 months.

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Homelessness in Burnaby increased by 69% in 3 years
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/homelessness-in-burnaby-increased-by-69-in-three-years-1.6958167

* Every year more people find themselves struggling w. housing insecurity: losing housing, living in vehicles, couch surfing w. relatives/friends, or completely unsheltered (living rough)

Mayor’s Task Force on Unsheltered Community Members
https://burnabybeacon.com/p/burnaby-homelessness-task-force-recommendations-2024

#Canada #BritishColumbia #Burnaby #housing #RentalUnits #apartments #inflation #AffordableHousing #corporations #PrivateEquity #capitalism #homelessness

Homelessness in Burnaby increased by 69% in three years

Every year, more people in Burnaby find themselves struggling with housing insecurity, with more people losing their housing, living in vehicles, couch surfing with relatives or friends, or, for some, completely unsheltered.

British Columbia
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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 2, 2024

[Canada] Windsor mayor supports notwithstanding clause to clear homeless encampments
https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/windsor-mayor-supports-notwithstanding-clause-to-clear-homeless-encampments-1.7096481

* joins 11 Ontario mayors urging Premier Doug Ford to empower municipalities
* anti-homelessness discrimination
* pot. use of notwithstanding clause, Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms

#Canada #Ontario #housing #apartments #inflation #AffordableHousing #corporations #PrivateEquity #capitalism #homelessness #discrimination #HumanRights #NotwithstandingClause

Windsor mayor supports notwithstanding clause to clear homeless encampments

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens is joining forces with eleven other Ontario mayors in urging Premier Doug Ford to empower municipalities to take stronger action against homelessness, including the potential use of the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Windsor
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 18, 2024

[Canada] Homelessness skyrocketed in Regina 2015+
https://regina.ctvnews.ca/alarmingly-high-homelessness-in-regina-up-255-per-cent-since-2015-according-to-study-1.7150066

* 2024 point-in-time homelessness count: 824 people in Regina exp. homelessness
* up 255%: 232 in 2015 to current 824 in 2024
* 63% of them completely w/o shelter
* despite only about 10% Regina’s pop., 75% Indigenous
* 30% of 824 live w. children; 37% of which under age 5

#homelessness #Indigenous
#Canada #Saskatchewan #Regina
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity

'Alarmingly high': Homelessness in Regina up 255 per cent since 2015, according to study

There are currently 824 people in Regina who are experiencing homelessness, according to the 2024 point-in-time homelessness count.

Regina