housing

Earlier this spring Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area (Habitat GTA) kicked off their 10th annual Women Build event to give a hand to families in need of affordable housing.On April 30th, over 50 Women Build participants came…

Starting January 1st, landlords across the province of Ontario will be able to increase rent by a maximum of 2.2 per cent in 2020, according to Ontario’s new rent increase guideline.The province calculates the guideline using the…

MONTREAL – Surrounded by river and silhouetted against a blue sky, the futuristic stacked concrete cubes of Montreal's Habitat 67 jut out of the landscape like a child's building-block project brought to life.More than 50 years after…

MONTREAL – A Montreal-based tenants' rights group led a demonstration on June 15 in the city's Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood to protest a housing shortage, which it blames partly on the condo boom, real estate speculation and short-term…

VANCOUVER – The federal government has announced $10 million to help the RCMP prosecute money laundering after a special meeting of Canada's finance and justice ministers to discuss the pervasive problem.British Columbia has been…

Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says it's ''devastating'' to see the homeless count rise and the city needs more investment from Ottawa if it's going to solve the problem.Preliminary figures released Wednesday show the homeless count…

The mayor of Montréal, Valérie Plante, along with Robert Beaudry, executive committee member responsible for economic and commercial development, housing and design, as well as Craig Sauvé, associate councillor responsible for housing, have…

Toronto Real Estate Board President Garry Bhaura announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS reported 9,989 transactions through TREB’s MLS System in May 2019.Although the results show an increase of 18.9 per cent over the 15-year low…