Out today! Episode 4 of NHAs' podcast talks about the history of tenant rights & tenant organizing in Canada with CCPAs' Ricardo Tranjan. We also discuss the growing influence of corporate landlords and strategies for building power through tenant unions & advocacy. share.transistor.fm/s/e050b932

Preventing the Rapid Loss of Affordable Housing: The NHA podcast speaks with Steve Pomeroy about how to protect Canada’s endangered Low-rent Homes In this month’s episode of the New Housing Alternatives podcast, hosts Cherise Burda and Ren Thomas speak with housing policy expert Steve Pomeroy.…

NHA proudly joins 134 organizations across Ontario in demanding that #Bill60 — what we call the "Create Encampments Faster Act" — is repealed. Read this co-signed to Premier Ford and demand action from Ford and Ontario's municipalities to protect renters: tinyurl.com/StopBill60

Join us 7pm next Friday, Oct 17 at U of T! This public panel considers how to build the movement for community-led housing across Canada. It also launches NHA's Housing Commons Research Centre, a new interactive platform for housing researchers & practitioners. www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...

What if housing was treated as a shared responsibility, not a commodity? We’re launching the Housing Commons Research Centre (HCRC) with a public panel on Oct 17 exploring housing as a commons, featuring leaders from Canada’s alternative housing movement. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...

Check out this great new report by @policyalternatives.ca (CCPA). It reflects on the history of the West Broadway Community Land Trust, a pioneering CLT in Winnipeg. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Across Canada, more & more neighbourhoods are launching Community Land Trusts. 45 CLTs now exist, with almost 2/3s launched since 2019. "A Case for CLTs in Canada" explains how this model creates permanently affordable homes, and calls for large scale investment. bsh.ubc.ca/a-case-for-c...

Opportunity Alert! Rooftops Canada is recruiting two Technical Advisors (Housing & Human Rights) for a two-week assignment in Uganda, Sept 22–Oct 3, 2025. Learn more: www.rooftops.ca/employment

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...

Sue Bunce, NHA’s Co-Director, speaks with CBC about Toronto’s move to make building garden suites easier. She joins others in applauding the move, but remains skeptical it will meaningfully move the needle for most households struggling with unaffordable rents. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Lincoln Institute recently published a collection of six global commentaries reflecting on the "Preserving Affordable Homeownership" Policy Focus Report we published in partnership with the International Center for Community Land Trusts in 2024.

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...

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Today Trump has declared economic war on Canada. A war of attrition to force us to become part of the United States. It will never happen lol Help us to stand up to this bully by buying Canadian products 🇨🇦 and boycott US goods

Today we launched the Pledge for Canada. We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum. We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values. Please sign and join the movement. engagement-canada-pledge.ca

Wishing everyone everywhere peace and inspiration. Come what may, let us stand strong for all that is right and just. Let us defend those who are being mistreated, and live with kindness and respect as Martin Luther King hoped we would . Our task is clear. ❤️

bsh.ubc.ca/new-insights... A new policy report series on Community Land Trusts in Canada. Just launched.