Corporate investment in housing linked to unaffordable rents, evictions, and long-term care deaths: study

News release from the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate at the Canadian Human Rights Commission announcing the publication of a series of research reports on the financialization of housing in Canada, produced by researchers Martine August, Nemoy Lewis, Jackie Brown, Manuel Gabarre de Sus, and ACORN Canada, documenting how private equity firms, pension funds, and REITs are driving unaffordable rent increases, evictions, and increased mortality in long-term care facilities, with disproportionate impacts on disadvantaged groups.
Topics include housing financialization, tenant rights, and the human right to housing.