A first-ever review of the financialization of Canada’s purpose-built rental housing market says the federal government must do more to fully realize the right to housing, and should take the lead on a national consensus to protect tenants. The National Housing Council publicly released its report on May 29 following nine months of engagement with more than 200 individuals, communities, and human rights and housing experts.
” Despite the panel's recommendations focusing on the federal government, Watts said that meeting the challenge would take “all of us,” including provincial, territorial, and municipal governments, health-care networks, housing providers, builders, and developers. While Watts said he doesn’t believe that the complete elimination of homelessness or housing insecurity is a totally realistic goal, Canada could make any instance “rare, brief, and non-recurring.