Decommodify Housing
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Dreams and Realities on the Home Front: Canadians’ Call for Government Action on Housing Affordability
Overall, a strong majority of respondents from both the BC Lower Mainland and the GTHA want to see the federal government get back into building housing (80%), with 41% wanting…
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Beyond Simply Building More: Policy Options for Combatting the Financialization of Housing in Ontario
To ensure that housing affordability crises do not reoccur in the long-term future, the Ontario government also needs to introduce new models of housing that decommodify affordable dwellings, rather than…
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Housing Costs and Labour since the 1970s
There exists a number of indices that look at the price of housing by deflating the nominal dollar price of a house by the consumer price index (CPI) to get…