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Thereâs an awkward problem in Canadaâs affordable housing strategy.
Even as it builds more units, the number of homes available at a price the working poor can afford keeps shrinking.
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In fact, say researchers, if trends in the market continue as expected, Canada is losing four units in the private market for every one publicly subsidized unit the federal government helps build. They fear the pandemic is only making that worse, that instability in the market has sped up consolidation, increasing the reach of the large investment trusts behind this trend.
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It’s a lovely mud hole, or at least better than the misery and chaos here before.
This empty lot at 93 Street and 107 Avenue was for years a typical slum property gang fights, needles, containers of urine emptied out the windows, piles of mattresses and garbage in the alley. But the beauty now is in the silence, and in the hope this property and other eyesores might finally become something better.
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