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Illustration of an alley in a city centre at night. The pink lights from a parked ambulance light up the surrounding buildings, while an abandoned shopping cart sits in the foreground.

December 2023 / Health

Why the Opioid Crisis Is Rooted in the Housing Crisis

November 27, 2023January 3, 2024 - by Kevin Patterson

A prevalent narrative asserts that the tents, the despair, the not waking up are about mental illness and addiction. That narrative crumbles after the first questions

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Business

Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich

November 20, 2023January 8, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

Owners of multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters

A collage of three black-and-white photos: A condo building, a person signing a lease, and keys on a door.

Business

There Is No Housing Crisis

August 7, 2023October 13, 2023 - by Ricardo Tranjan

Supply alone will not solve a problem that large sections of the population don’t want to fix

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Society

Could the Missing Middle Solve the Housing Crisis?

July 13, 2023July 12, 2023 - by Jimmy Thomson

Victoria, BC, is making an ambitious move to densify neighbourhoods. It could be a model for the rest of the country

May 2023 / Society

Many Canadians Will Never Own a Home. Does It Matter?

February 8, 2023March 31, 2023 - by Brad Badelt

Our country has spent decades incentivizing home ownership. What would it take to make Canada a nation of renters?

December 2022 / Letters

Letters to the Editor: December 2022

December 6, 2022 - by Readers

On a poet’s tarnished legacy, the housing crisis, and Quebec’s rebellious opposition leader

Memoir

I’m Haunted by the Mansions of My Youth

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 - by Erika Thorkelson

I grew up having nightmares about big houses that represented the trauma of my childhood. As an adult living through the housing crisis, my relationship with mansions has only grown more complicated

A hand holds a hat out, as if asking for change. Inside the hat is a small scene of a boarded up house, with people entering on the left. A figure on the right is telling a person to leave, who exist the house and walks down to a tent.

September/October 2022 / Society

No Place to Live

September 21, 2022March 10, 2023 - by Julia-Simone Rutgers

One person’s search for a place to call home shows a public housing system stretched to its limits

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Hooked-up Culture

March 10, 2022June 23, 2023 - by Katie Underwood

Edged out of the city by ever-inflating housing prices—and freed up by flexible working parameters, courtesy of COVID-19—Canadian millennials might finally have a shot at financial stability. If the Wi-Fi’s good, that is.

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Why the Opioid Crisis Is Rooted in the Housing Crisis

Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich

There Is No Housing Crisis

Could the Missing Middle Solve the Housing Crisis?

Letters to the Editor: December 2022

I’m Haunted by the Mansions of My Youth

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