Policy
Housing in a Time of Crisis
Housing availability and affordability is at a crisis point across Canada. Our members see the toll that the housing crisis is taking on their lives and communities every day. Workers need to be able to afford a home near their place of work, and communities need frontline workers to be able to live where they work.
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Retirement security is key to solving housing crisis
The affordable housing crisis in Canada means that home ownership is out of reach for many workers. It is also becoming more difficult to find safe, clean, and comfortable rental housing. One surprising obstacle to housing affordability? Canada’s inadequate public pensions. Too many people must rely on the value of their home going up – worsening affordability for future generations – in order to retire.
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CUPE to Finance Committee: fix public pensions to address housing crisis
CUPE researcher Emily Niles and CUPE human rights officer Aditya Rao testified before the House Standing Committee on Finance on November 9. They spoke to the committee about some of the causes of the housing crisis and its effects on CUPE members and the public at large.
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Liberals leave working people out in the cold on housing
The Liberal government is leaving working people out in the cold yet again, as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Fall Economic Statement heaps more public money on private developers to build unaffordable, for-profit housing.
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Canada's housing affordability crisis requires wartime public effort: CUPE
Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), says there will be no meaningful improvement to housing affordability as long as the Liberal government excludes the expansion of public housing as part of the solution.
