Students ask Mayor Breen the tough questions. National Housing Day looms. Trails are expanding in a round-about way. Ignore the mace, but mind your road rage ahead of those holiday parades.
Associate professor Daniel Kudla says encampments like one in St. John's have been set up in many of Canada's big cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, and as the cost of living has ratcheted up, they're emerging in mid-sized and smaller cities.
Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser says a City of St. John's application for money to build more housing through the Housing Accelerator fund "falls short of the ambition I am hoping to see."
When the new year rolls in, the Super 8 hotel in St. John's will cease to be a place where weary travellers lay their heads for the night and will instead become an apartment complex. But while any addition to the supply is good, says an affordable housing advocate, the rent will be too high for many.