Affordability

Ontario Premier Doug Ford met Sunday with leaders of rural, remote and northern communities to discuss their housing challenges as issues of rapid price growth and lack of supply are felt far beyond urban borders.The talks came…

TORONTO — Ontario's largest communities will get new funding to help speed up development approvals, Premier Doug Ford announced as he hosted a housing summit Wednesday, but the municipal leaders he met with say much stronger action is…

The Canadian Real Estate Association says housing sales will moderate next year, but prices aren't expected to ease any time soon.The association said in its 2022 forecast released on Wednesday that it expects tightening supply…

Passive House Canada has joined the Building to Electrification (B2E) Coalition, the newest program area of the Zero Emissions Building Exchange (ZEBx), Metro Vancouver's capacity-building hub focused on decarbonizing the building sector.…

TORONTO — The Ontario government has appointed nine members to a task force that will advise the province on ways to address housing supply and affordability.The Housing Affordability Task Force is expected to look into measures to…

By Sarah Sibley, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterCABIN RADIOYellowknife house prices rose to an all-time high as the pandemic made the Northwest Territories' housing problems even worse in 2020, a new report states.Federal…

TORONTO — Ontario is planning to establish a housing affordability task force, as both prices and the number of home sales have grown in the past year, though it's a pledge the opposition parties dismiss as meaningless.Telling figures…

A new report shows parents are giving increasingly large financial gifts so their kids can afford down payments in Canada's hot housing market.The report by CIBC deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal found the average gift for first time…

LANGFORD, B.C. — The Victoria-area city of Langford is offering a helping hand to those who have a dream of owning their own home by providing a five per cent down payment on their purchase.Langford is facing a housing affordability…