Balanced Supply of Housing
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CMHC-SSHRC funded group of academic and community-based housing researchers with a focus on housing affordability in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, Canada 🍁
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Dr. Nemoy Lewis spoke to the Toronto Start this week following the release of recent, BSH-supported research that found financialized landlords disproportionately apply to evict in Black neighbourhoods.
For more key takeaways, see our blog: buff.ly/BT4qQDw
For more key takeaways, see our blog: buff.ly/BT4qQDw
Racialized Violence: How Corporate Landlords Target Black Renters in Toronto
New research on eviction patterns in Toronto's Black communities reveals a disturbing pattern: financialized, corporate landlords systemically target these communities through eviction practices,…
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January 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Dr. Nemoy Lewis spoke to the Toronto Start this week following the release of recent, BSH-supported research that found financialized landlords disproportionately apply to evict in Black neighbourhoods.
For more key takeaways, see our blog: buff.ly/BT4qQDw
For more key takeaways, see our blog: buff.ly/BT4qQDw
2/2 Supported by BSH staff & researchers, the group calls for:
1. Consultation with impacted community members
2. Report-back on conversations between Mayor’s office & prov. & fed. housing ministers
3. Plan to retain DTES assets & create more shelter-rate housing without displacement
1. Consultation with impacted community members
2. Report-back on conversations between Mayor’s office & prov. & fed. housing ministers
3. Plan to retain DTES assets & create more shelter-rate housing without displacement
December 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
2/2 Supported by BSH staff & researchers, the group calls for:
1. Consultation with impacted community members
2. Report-back on conversations between Mayor’s office & prov. & fed. housing ministers
3. Plan to retain DTES assets & create more shelter-rate housing without displacement
1. Consultation with impacted community members
2. Report-back on conversations between Mayor’s office & prov. & fed. housing ministers
3. Plan to retain DTES assets & create more shelter-rate housing without displacement
2/2 But rights aren't abstract. They're built through policy, data, and accountability.
BSH research on #evictions, #CommunityLandTrusts, #zoning & #financialization provides the structural analysis needed to realize housing rights.
🧑💻 Read our latest blog for more: buff.ly/L4aYJSG
BSH research on #evictions, #CommunityLandTrusts, #zoning & #financialization provides the structural analysis needed to realize housing rights.
🧑💻 Read our latest blog for more: buff.ly/L4aYJSG
How Evidence-Based Housing Policy Advances the Right to Housing in Canada
Can data chart a right? In this blog, Dr. Alexandra Flynn examines how evidence-based housing research advances the constitutional and legal foundation for housing rights in Canada. Exploring the gap…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
2/2 But rights aren't abstract. They're built through policy, data, and accountability.
BSH research on #evictions, #CommunityLandTrusts, #zoning & #financialization provides the structural analysis needed to realize housing rights.
🧑💻 Read our latest blog for more: buff.ly/L4aYJSG
BSH research on #evictions, #CommunityLandTrusts, #zoning & #financialization provides the structural analysis needed to realize housing rights.
🧑💻 Read our latest blog for more: buff.ly/L4aYJSG
This is the future of housing justice in action. Congratulations to everyone who made this happen!
📚 For more on our research, check out our Parkdale Tower Rental Housing Study at bsh.ubc.ca/research/tower-rentals-in-parkdale/ or learn more about our CLT research at bsh.ubc.ca/research/CLTs
📚 For more on our research, check out our Parkdale Tower Rental Housing Study at bsh.ubc.ca/research/tower-rentals-in-parkdale/ or learn more about our CLT research at bsh.ubc.ca/research/CLTs
Tower Rentals in Parkdale | Balanced Supply of Housing
Last modified: The Neighborhood Land Trust & Parkdale People's Economy will implement a Community Action Research Project that seeks to document and respond to the increasing financialization and dimi...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is the future of housing justice in action. Congratulations to everyone who made this happen!
📚 For more on our research, check out our Parkdale Tower Rental Housing Study at bsh.ubc.ca/research/tower-rentals-in-parkdale/ or learn more about our CLT research at bsh.ubc.ca/research/CLTs
📚 For more on our research, check out our Parkdale Tower Rental Housing Study at bsh.ubc.ca/research/tower-rentals-in-parkdale/ or learn more about our CLT research at bsh.ubc.ca/research/CLTs
This project exemplifies the kind of community-led solutions our #CLT research advocates for. Our work on tower rentals in Parkdale documented the challenges facing residents in aging buildings & the innovative approaches to preserve affordability & strengthen community control.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This project exemplifies the kind of community-led solutions our #CLT research advocates for. Our work on tower rentals in Parkdale documented the challenges facing residents in aging buildings & the innovative approaches to preserve affordability & strengthen community control.
For more research on #missingmiddle housing, visit:
📙https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/moving-forward-on-the-missing-middle/
📘https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/concerted-action-on-the-missing-middle/
📙https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/moving-forward-on-the-missing-middle/
📘https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/concerted-action-on-the-missing-middle/
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
For more research on #missingmiddle housing, visit:
📙https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/moving-forward-on-the-missing-middle/
📘https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/concerted-action-on-the-missing-middle/
📙https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/moving-forward-on-the-missing-middle/
📘https://bsh.ubc.ca/research/concerted-action-on-the-missing-middle/
7/7 Bottom line: Budget 2025 makes meaningful investments in supportive housing and preservation. That's real progress.
But without tenant protections and accountability funding, we're only solving half the problem.
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But without tenant protections and accountability funding, we're only solving half the problem.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
7/7 Bottom line: Budget 2025 makes meaningful investments in supportive housing and preservation. That's real progress.
But without tenant protections and accountability funding, we're only solving half the problem.
🔗 buff.ly/xdZ9DBa
But without tenant protections and accountability funding, we're only solving half the problem.
🔗 buff.ly/xdZ9DBa
6/7 The new capital budgeting framework could unlock capital for non-market housing, which is exactly what the sector needs.
But we're watching to ensure "affordable housing" definitions stay stringent and tied to actual housing need, not market rates.
But we're watching to ensure "affordable housing" definitions stay stringent and tied to actual housing need, not market rates.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
6/7 The new capital budgeting framework could unlock capital for non-market housing, which is exactly what the sector needs.
But we're watching to ensure "affordable housing" definitions stay stringent and tied to actual housing need, not market rates.
But we're watching to ensure "affordable housing" definitions stay stringent and tied to actual housing need, not market rates.