Housing Crisis |

Capitalist “solutions” are creating and sustaining the housing crisis

By Ivan Stoiljkovic Most people think that the issue with social services is that they are underfunded. So it is with housing, with all the bourgeois parties in the federal election campaign promising to invest more money in housing. Progressives [...]

Encampment Support Network denounces attempted clearing at Toronto’s Lamport Stadium

On Wednesday May 19th, the City of Toronto sent a massive force to clear the encampment at Lamport Stadium Park. Roughly 60 City of Toronto corporate security guards and police officers (including eight on horseback), six people in Hazmat suits, a [...]

Ontario communists demand a halt to evictions, support for encampments and housing for all

PV Ontario Bureau Among the series of crises that the coronavirus pandemic has caused and exposed in Ontario, one of the most dramatic is in housing. Homeless people have been exposed to the virus in overcrowded shelters and, as a result, [...]

Toronto’s winter plan for homelessness falls too short to prevent deaths

By Alykhan Pabani I care deeply about my neighbours and try in earnest to support the struggles of those less privileged than me. When the pandemic hit, the nature of these struggles became even more acute and as a result, an ad-hoc group of [...]

Housing crisis escalating but government response prioritizes corporate landowners

As governments lift the temporary bans on evictions that were put in place during the initial stages of the COVID-related economic crisis, an estimated 16 percent of people in Canada are at risk of losing their housing. Nearly 6 million people could [...]

Toronto tenants fighting a class war they cannot afford to lose

By Alykhan Pabani United in action, Toronto’s tenants descended upon John Tory’s private residence on July 6, intending to deliver a mock eviction notice to the mayor. After years of casting futile ballots, petitioning groomed staffers and [...]

COVID-19 and the capitalist housing crisis in Québec

By Jason Johnson On the eve of the COVID-19 health emergency, Québec was already experiencing its most severe housing crisis since 2001. The vacancy rate for rental housing in Québec cities with a population of at least 10,000 people was only 1.2 [...]

Trudeau’s Nunavut Housing Plan Made of Straw

On August 2, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a trip to Iqaluit for a photo-op during which he laid out his government's alleged commitment to building new housing in Nunavut. The territory is in the midst of a severe and worsening housing crisis [...]

Ontario’s Affordable Housing Plan A Gift To Developers

Ontario is in the midst of a housing crisis that continues to deteriorate. The Communist Party in Ontario is going to ramp up its work on the housing crisis.