Financial firms file for eviction more than any other Toronto landlord, new research finds The research looked at more than 200,000 evictions and found financial firms pursue evictions at a rate 1.5 times higher than chain landlords and 2.5 times more than single-building landlords.

A few huge financial firms are buying up Toronto's purpose-built rental, 📈from 14% to 24% of all units 2010-21.

Starlight & CAPREIT alone own almost half.

They're aggressively filing evictions at rates 2.5X >than single-building owners & 1.5X >than corporate chains.
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Accelerating rental supply: balancing development and tenant protection Discover insights on increasing rental housing supply in Canada, addressing affordability and protecting tenants without compromising private investment.

CMHC: "We dug into...whether REITs...charge higher rents... The short answer is they don’t. While the rents charged are higher, there tend to be sound financial reasons", like being newer & "in neighborhoods with greater growth potential".

Glad that's settled! 🤑

www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/observer/202...

Filling the Gaps: An Analysis of Evictions Filing in the Greater Toronto Area from 2010-2021 A new report from BSH analyzes evictions filings to better understand the impact of housing financialization on housing security. The research, which focuses on the GTA, reveals that treating…

New BSH research, by @seangrisdale.bsky.social, analyzing 385,000+ eviction filings in the GTA (2010-2021) reveals how financialized landlords are systematically undermining housing security & exacerbating inequalities across the region.

Read the full report: buff.ly/ZY6GQYS
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Making housing affordable isn’t just about reducing prices. It’s also about raising incomes.

On both fronts, we're going the wrong way fast.

Across 🇨🇦, “the income gap between wealthy & low-income households has reached a record high" finds NHA's Ricardo Tranjan.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Proposed Brampton bylaw aims to protect rental housing supply An affordable housing advocacy group says the proposed bylaw doesn’t go far enough to protect tenants.

Brampton is preparing a bylaw to prevent the loss of affordable rental apartments.

Developers that demolish or convert rental units could soon be required to replace them & provide tenants “right of return”.

But ACORN is pushing to strengthen the policy👇
www.bramptonguardian.com/news/propose...

CMHC's New Housing Supply Framework: Moving the Goalposts While Missing the Point  | Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)

Great @ubchart.bsky.social brief on CMHCs new Housing Supply Framework

CMHCs revised targets:
(1) Set 60-70% of income as an acceptable housing affordability standard for major Canadian cities
(2) Emphasize market supply-alone solutions & neglect financialization
hart.ubc.ca/blog/cmhcs-n...

Kitchener renoviction bylaw to stop the ‘hell that people are going through’ is a step closer The City of Kitchener moves to combat renovictions through a new rental renovation licensing bylaw, facing debates on jurisdiction and potential impact.

City of Kitchener is moving forward with legislation protecting tenants from renovictions.

Congrats to ACORN for showing the power of tenants when they organize.

www.therecord.com/news/council...

Tomorrow

An actually affordable housing project is rising in a former Kensington Market parking lot - Toronto Life The 78-unit mass timber building follows eight years of work between advocates and the city

Great to see @kmclt.bsky.social begin construction on 78 supportive homes in Kensington Market.

Another small step for Mayor Chow's plan to build 65k rent-controlled homes on city-owned sites by 2030.

Another big leap for Canada's fast-growing Community Land Trusts.
torontolife.com/city/real-es...

‘It’s a plague’: Advocates renew calls for renoviction bylaw in Kitchener On Monday, more than a dozen housing advocates took their fight to Kitchener City Hall, renewing their calls for a renoviction bylaw.

54% of eviction notices in Waterloo Region in the past 5 years were for renovation or demolition, according to a survey by NHA partner, ACORN.

“It’s a plague…that’s why you see other municipalities [passing renoviction bylaws]…& that’s what we need Kitchener to do.”

www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

Have the Doors Closed on New BC Supportive Housing? | The Tyee Vancouver killed a Kitsilano project after fierce legal opposition from neighbours. Where might this lead?

3 months ago, Vancouver stopped approving supportive-housing projects

Last month, the City quashed a 129-unit (1/2 supportive) project, approved for rezoning in 2022

“This was an instream project. To see the city back away is concerning”

All amidst a homelessness crisis
thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

International Commentaries on Preserving Affordable Homeownership - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy This collection of six global commentaries reflects on the Preserving Affordable Homeownership Policy Focus Report published by the Lincoln Institute in partnership with the International Center for C...

Check out Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's new report on the global Community Land Trust movement.

It features a chapter by NHA partners Dominique Russell (Kensington Market CLT) & Sue Bunce (UofT), which explores the growth of CLTs across Canada.

www.lincolninst.edu/publications...

The Great Sell Off - How Our Homes Became Someone Else's Business Canada's housing system is broken. This report explains how financialization severed the link between incomes and home prices—and why old solutions won't fix it.

Highly recommend this new data-heavy, policy-oriented, very readable 80+page report.

It tracks the📈role of financialization & investor ownership in decoupling 🇨🇦 home prices from incomes since the 90s.

Happy to see my research adding to this important analysis.
www.movesmartly.com/thegreatsell...