Tag: Housing
London failed to meet its province-set housing target. Whose fault is that?
City politicians want Queen’s Park to change how it measures its housing targets for municipalities, claiming London received a “failing grade” based on elements outside of its control.
Baranyai: Much work needed to make housing market more fair
To borrow a pre-digital aphorism, maps are drawn in pencil, not in ink.
Letters to the Editor: October 27, 2023
Homes not agencies
Su: International students not to blame for Canada’s housing crisis
At the start of the new academic school year, around 30 students at Canadore College in North Bay held a protest to decry the lack of accommodation provided to international students.
Q + A: Josh Morgan on $74M housing windfall, new planning rules for units
London’s $74-million windfall from the federal government to build more than 2,000 housing units comes with some strings for city hall.
Wray: Ontario student housing crisis fuelled by stealthy municipal planning
Researchers examined 15 Ontario municipalities with a major university campus, and found only one (Waterloo) had adopted plans designed to accommodate student housing near the campus. Student-oriented housing under construction in Waterloo in 2016. (Evelyn Hofmann), Author provided Alexander Wray, Western University and Nick Revington, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) University and college […]
International student cap would limit schools’ diverse ‘mix’: Western University
London-area colleges and universities — brimming with international students and the higher tuition they pay — are opposing potential enrolment caps that some speculate could help cure a serious housing crunch.
Canada Life president on helming London’s homeless fundraising team
As head of one of Canada’s largest companies, Jeff Macoun works in the same corner office in downtown London that his predecessors have used since 1927.
Baranyai: All levels of government need to engage in housing crisis
What is a home? Is it a shelter? An investment? Collateral? A human right? A pipe dream?
Cornies: International student industry needs re-evaluation, but not because of housing
With one eye on wildfires creating havoc in Alberta, B.C. and the Northwest Territories, the cabinet of Justin Trudeau put housing affordability at the top of its agenda at a retreat in Charlottetown this week.