Tag: housing
SteelTown down, but not out: Gimme Shelter
In the spirit of lifting one another up, SaultOnline has devoted this week’s outreach to housing services.
You can find our first edition that focused...
Sheehan Shares Details of New National Housing Strategy
Plan calls for significant investments in affordable units and repairs to existing units
MP Terry Sheehan, on behalf of the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister...
Housing affordability at worst level since 1990: RBC
Royal Bank says housing affordability in Canada hit the worst level since 1990 in the second quarter of this year.
In a new report Friday,...
Asylum-seekers struggling to find housing
MONTREAL - Some of the asylum-seekers who have recently crossed the Canada-U.S. border say they're struggling to find a place to live once they...
Small group profiting from Airbnb rentals: study
MONTREAL - New research suggests a small number of large commercial property owners are the most successful on Airbnb and are eating up the...
Ontario to tax foreign buyers, expand rent control
TORONTO - Ontario plans to help cool a hot housing market by bringing in a 15-per-cent foreign buyer tax, expanding rent control, allowing Toronto...
Housing measures coming ‘very soon’: Wynne
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government will introduce a package of housing affordability measures "very soon" that she believes will have...
Feds explore creation of new housing benefit
OTTAWA - The federal government is looking at creating a new benefit to help low-income Canadians who struggle to pay the rent each month.
Multiple...
Ontario Helping First-time Homebuyers
Ontario will help more people purchase their first home through a proposal to double the maximum Land Transfer Tax refund for eligible first-time homebuyers...
Legislation Would Support Better Access to Affordable Housing Across the Province
Today, Ontario reintroduced the Promoting Affordable Housing Act, 2016 that would, if passed, help ensure better access to affordable and adequate housing for the...
