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Trudeau, Ford and Chow all have big ideas for fixing housing. The Star asked a panel of housing experts to weigh in.

Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war

Analysis of rental data reveals 87 of 177 rental projects approved through Ottawa’s Apartment Construction Loan Program exceed what a typical renter household can actually afford to pay

Hundreds of tenants, struggling to afford skyrocketing rents, are refusing to pay their landlords at all. They call it a rent strike. The landlords say it’s illegal. An inside look at the frontier of a growing class war

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces creation of $1.5-billion rental protection fund to help non-profits buy affordable rental apartments when they go up for sale.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces creation of $1.5-billion rental protection fund to help non-profits buy affordable rental apartments when they go up for sale

No one wants to live through a Canadian winter in a tent. But encampments are a dangerous and miserable result of hard-to-solve problems.

Canadas new limit on visas for international students will cool the high demand for rental units and slow the rate of rent hikes, but it wont necessarily be a big factor in solving the countrys housing affordability crisis, observers say.

Canadas new limit on visas for international students will cool the high demand for rental units and slow the rate of rent hikes, but it wont necessarily be a big factor in solving the countrys housing affordability crisis, observers say.

The report, released Wednesday, found the vacancy rate now sitting at 1.5 per cent, the lowest recorded rate since 1988 when the CMHC began recording a national vacancy rate.