Access to affordable housing should be universal, report delivered to federal minister says

Canada needs to treat affordable housing as something that should be universally available, akin to health care, according to a new report to the federal government that calls for preserving lower-cost apartments, building more of them and better supporting renters.

The report was released Wednesday by a review panel of the National Housing Council, which was appointed by and provides advice to Sean Fraser, the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities.

It argues that a shift has taken place in Canada as housing was “targeted as an asset class – a vehicle for wealth and investment.” At the same time, Canada lagged far behind its Organization for Economic Co-operation

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