Ontario NDP Housing Plan Thin on Details, Leaves Out Previous Pledges
The ONDP’s housing promises are thinner than those offered in their 2018 platform and in a policy document that the party published in 2020.
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Only Working Class Organizing Can Defeat Renovictions
Legal and policy prescriptions can’t contain the forces driving renovictions, but the organized efforts of working class people can.
Liberals’ Home Savings Account Proposal A ‘Gimmick’ That Leaves Low-Income Renters Behind, Analysts Say
“It’s most likely to be a tax shelter for a very, very small pool of Canadians who have very high incomes under the age of 40.”
Does The NDP's Housing Plan Go Far Enough?
We asked NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh what truly "affordable" housing means, and whether 500,000 affordable housing units is enough to address the current shortfall.
Encampment Evictions: Toronto’s Attack On Class Consciousness
The pandemic has proven to be a temporal shift for Toronto, with the lines between housed and unhoused being blurred.
Toronto’s War On The Homeless Continues With Encampment Clearings
The real way to help those living in encampments throughout the city is providing them with permanent housing options.
Skyrocketing Canadian House Prices Further Entrench Wealth
A Globe and Mail article on rising house prices ignores that they benefit the very people portrayed as victims: children of wealthy parents.
Doug Ford Is Using The Pandemic To Criminalize Tenant Organizing
In the midst of a pandemic, Ford has empowered landlords and police to impose greater discipline and hardship on working-class people.
Elected Representatives Are Profiting Off The Housing Crisis
A review of public records reveals that since the beginning of the pandemic, at least eight MPs disclosed new rental property assets.