This policy brief from the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights provides an overview of the current state of affordable rental homes in Canada and offers specific policy tools that governments can utilize to preserve the existing supply. It highlights the urgent need to address the rapid loss of affordable homes due to demolition, conversion, and rent increases. The brief covers various policy tools to keep rents affordable, maintain affordable homes, prevent neglect, preserve affordability in housing redevelopments, and protect affordable rental housing from conversion. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of inter-governmental cooperation and coordination in addressing this issue.
Topics include: affordable housing preservation, rental market policies, inter-governmental cooperation.