Food and Housing Insescurity
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As Canadians grapple with rising food prices outpacing inflation and a lack of affordable housing, Future of Good looks at ways organizations are finding solutions and offering ideas to help ensure everyone has clean, warm shelter and no one goes hungry.
Public grocery stores won’t fix Canada’s food affordability crisis
There are better ways to deal with this crisis than trying to put together public infrastructure from scratch.
Toronto’s rooming houses: Opaque ownership, invisible displacement
Private landlords and non-profits provide affordable housing in the form of multi-tenant homes. While there is a lot of opacity around private providers, housing advocates say it’s imperative to support them in their transition to the City of Toronto’s new licensing framework, and thus maintain a stock of safe, secure multi-tenant housing.
Toronto’s most affordable housing is becoming too expensive to run
An update to licensing intended to improve safety and consistency in Toronto rooming houses may inadvertently lead to their eventual extinction.
Food prices are already high in Canada. Will the Iran war make them worse?
Oil‑driven cost pressures may ripple through Canada’s food system — but not as sharply as past global shocks.
B.C. government to end rent supplement program April 1
Affordable housing programs rolled back under BC government budget cuts.
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