Canada

Didn't Carney call housing a national emergency during the election?

I don't understand the insistence on creating another crown corporation while the CMHC is right there. Meanwhile, we're six months into his tenure and internal documents are discussing the creation of the damn thing.

This is the result of treating housing as an investment instead of a human right.

I mean, that's been the external reality for years now

Weird how we've known this since the 80s when the conservatives purposfully destroyed our social housing infrastructure.

The documents say the government has fallen behind on investing in housing offered below market rates, a shortfall that is hitting newcomers and vulnerable Canadians especially hard.

Canada’s stock of non-market affordable homes stands at four per cent of the total housing mix, short of the OECD average of seven per cent.