Pretty soon Barrie’s homeless are going to be finding themselves … homeless.
Or at least city-less.
I bet they end up in Toronto
WARMINGTON: Barrie’s 600 homeless in tent cities will soon be kicked out of town
“Homelessness & Affordability Crisis”
Toronto is on pace for its lowest annual housing starts in 30 years, CMHC says
Toronto’s homebuilding activity in the first half of 2025 was the lowest on a per-capita basis since 1996, according to a new report from Canada’s national housing agency.
The drop was driven by a 60 per cent year-over-year decrease in condo starts, the new “Housing Supply Report” by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) found.
”A pullback in investor demand during the first half of 2025 reduced project feasibility, leading to cancellations, delays, and a sharp drop in construction,” the report said, adding that many industry actors are calling for reduced construction costs and development charges.
Barrie, Ont. mayor declares city-wide state of emergency
Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall says enough is enough.
On Tuesday morning, the mayor declared a state of emergency aimed at addressing encampments across the city, pointing to growing safety concerns, damage to municipal property, and the ongoing toll of the opioid crisis.
“Barrie residents have had enough,” Nuttall stated, adding the city would support those seeking help but would not allow encampments to continue on public property. The mayor said the City would “reclaim” its streets, park and public spaces.
The rot is so deep, so widespread that no corner of our world is left untouched.
h/t Mauser
Canada on verge of housing crisis due to Liberal inaction, Poilievre warns
OTTAWA — Government inaction on housing is leading Canada towards an unprecedented crisis, Canada’s Opposition leader warns.
Speaking Tuesday from a residential construction site in Brampton, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said inaction by the Mark Carney Liberals on homebuilding is sparking an unrecoverable cycle of layoffs, unemployment and withering-away of skilled trades — leaving Canada with a devastating shortage of skilled workers.
Toronto real estate: This is how much you need to make to afford a one-bedroom apartment
A new report is sounding the alarm on unaffordable rent in Toronto, pointing out that despite a softening of prices in the rental market, one- and two-bedroom apartments remain out of reach for many workers.
The report, Making Rent: The CCPA’s rental wage update 2024, was released Thursday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It looks at the “rental wage”—the hourly wage needed to afford rent while working a standard 40-hour week and spending 30 per cent of income on housing—for one- and two-bedroom units in 62 Canadian cities.
It found that Toronto and Vancouver top the list when it comes to unaffordable rental housing.
Someone working full time would need to make almost $38 an hour in order to afford a one-bedroom apartment in those cities. That works out to an annual salary of around $78,000.
Treasury Secretary Bessent: Trump May Declare Emergency Over Housing Affordability
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says President Trump is considering declaring a national housing emergency to address the growing affordability crisis that is keeping home ownership out of reach for millions of Americans.
In Toronto, cheering when homeowners sell at a loss has now become a spectator sport. Is that a bad thing?
The Etobicoke red brick detached home was on the market for 40 days this summer.
After multiple price adjustments, the three-bedroom, two-bath finally went for $1.545 million, over half-a-million less than when it was last sold, near the height of the Toronto real-estate market in spring 2002.
The reaction? “Excellent.”
Mark Carney joins in a shameful Canadian tradition
When Mayor Olivia Chow recently revealed that the federal government is preparing to shortchange Toronto on funding to provide shelter for refugees — to the tune of more than $100 million this year — many of us likely felt a sense of déjà vu.
Didn’t we go through this with the last guy? As the number of refugees in the shelter system ballooned under former prime minister Justin Trudeau (from 530 per night in 2021 to more than 5,000 per night in 2025), the feds hemmed and hawed and tried to pass the buck while refugees slept on sidewalks and Toronto’s established homeless population was squeezed into tent cities. Chow’s budget chief, Shelley Carroll, even threatened a civic Trudeau Tax Levy. Finally, in 2024, Trudeau came around.
Carney government has two duties to younger Canadians, and one is to offer real hope
TORONTO—The Carney government has big plans for a new and, it says, a more prosperous Canadian economy—but much of what it hopes to accomplish will take years before we see a material difference. In the meantime, support for big change may whither unless immediate threats are not addressed.
Two big challenges require careful monitoring. One is the rise of unemployment and the fall in opportunities for younger Canadians. The other is the huge volume of household mortgages that must be renewed this year or next, with higher interest rates and hence higher repayment levels, and at a time when the economy faces the prospect of higher unemployment and weaker wage gains to offset higher mortgage payments. Young home-owners who were first-time buyers at the height of the real estate bubble when mortgage rates were especially low are also especially vulnerable.
Carney won’t do squat. Mass immigration will leave us all impoverished and that’s what he and his cronies want – easy pickings.
Canada on track to build far fewer homes than needed to meet housing gap
While Canada is on track to build 2.5 million new homes by 2035, it will not be nearly enough to close the housing gap and meet demand, a new report by the Parliamentary Budget Office on Tuesday said.
According to PBO’s projections, those 2.5 million new homes will still be 690,000 homes short of the 3.2 million new homes that Canada would need to meet its housing demand over the next 10 years.
We need more unskilled labour from culturally incompatible 3rd World crap holes to solve the housing crisis!
Canada’s housing crisis stirs revealing flights of fiction and fantasy
Douglas Todd: The country’s housing emergency is so powerful, distorted and puzzling that many are prone to say, “You couldn’t make this up.” But some B.C. writers are doing just that, through intrepid works of fiction.
An untold number of works have been written about Canada’s housing crisis, especially regarding the Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto regions.
A flood of media articles, industry reports, scholarly analyses and books continue to dig into the impact on housing of foreign capital, construction costs, zoning bylaws, the profit motive, government policy and more.
Now we’re seeing a new kind of exploration of the problem — in fiction.
Half of young Canadians spending more than 50% of earnings on rent
Roughly half of young renters and a third of tenants at all ages are spending the majority of their after-tax income on rent, according to a new report.
Experts say the survey, which was published by Rentals.ca this week, shows that the adage of limiting your rental expenses to one-third of your income is simply no longer possible for many Canadians – a situation that could threaten the ability of renters to adequately save for retirement.
I find it sickening that the Globe which advocates for continued mass immigration pretends to give a damn about anyone squeezed out of housing by corporate Canada’s imported scabs.
Canada’s Real Estate Economy, Fueled by Mass Immigration and Offshore Cash, Is Unsustainable, Mayor Brad West Warns
British Columbia, and much of the country, is confronting the consequences of an economic model that was never built to last. For years, we have been told a comforting story about growth — that as long as cranes dot the skyline and property values climb, prosperity will follow. But beneath that veneer lies a stark truth: our economy is not driven by value-added manufacturing, groundbreaking technology, innovation, or by unlocking our vast natural resource potential. It is built almost entirely on real estate and relentless population growth driven by mass immigration. And it relies on the building and selling of homes to the next wave of newcomers.
This is not diversification. This is dependency. And like all dependencies, it eventually demands a price.
Pierre Poilievre among the dozens of MPs with rental property amid housing crunch … Huh?
Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre is among the dozens of MPs who own rental property even as he blasts the unfairness of Canada’s housing market for young Canadians, Global News has learned.
Poilievre, the perceived frontrunner in the party’s leadership race, has made housing unaffordability a central part of his campaign so far, and has frequently criticized what he calls the “gatekeepers” keeping homes out of reach for home-buying hopefuls.
Two condos owned by Poilievre and his wife? That’s nothing compared to others.
No idea why Poilievre was singled out for headline treatment unless God forbid our media are nothing more than paid propagandists for the LPC!
Poll results reflect ‘emerging consensus’ over need to reduce home prices, expert says
A slim majority of Canadians believe that reducing home prices is more important than keeping them stable, but most still feel that housing affordability is unlikely to improve in the next five years, according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted for The Globe and Mail by Nanos Research, found that 52 per cent of Canadians said reducing prices was necessary, while only 35 per cent felt prices should be kept stable. Thirteen per cent of respondents were unsure.