Like all communities across Canada, Edmonton has a housing problem. And despite many best efforts, this crisis only continues to worsen. How can we best understand and fix this issue of (in)access to adequate housing? The key to understanding and effectively addressing our housing crisis is to take a human rights approach (UNHRC 2019). One […]
Tag: Housing Affordability
The Financialization of Housing: What Is It?
How can we understand the financialization of housing? What does it mean? And can this help us make sense of our current housing crisis? Like all communities across Canada, Edmonton has a housing problem. And despite many best efforts, this crisis only continues to worsen. How can we best understand and fix this issue of […]
The Affordability of Rental Apartments and Townhouses in Edmonton in 2020
The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation released their annual rental market report a few months ago. The report analyzes market trends in large population centres in Canada for the year 2020. Included in the tables that accompanied the release of the report is data on the number of apartments and townhouses in the primary rental market […]
Edmonton Rental Market – Year in Review (2020)
Image Source: IQRemix; Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/iqremix/42276507674/in/photostream/ The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation released their annual rental market report a few weeks ago. The report analyzes market trends in large population centres in Canada for the year 2020. Here are three highlights from the report for metro Edmonton: Vacancy goes up, average rent stays the same The […]
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