Tag: news

• May 6, 2024

  BC’s housing push paying off with 36% more residential construction jobs than Canadian average

  British Columbia is grabbing headlines for setting housing construction records, but the Eby government policies are also creating a lot of paycheques for BC construction workers, Statistics Canada data shows. The BC industry started construction on 87.2 housing units per 100,000 population in March, a rate significantly above every other Canadian province, according to data…
• February 7, 2024

  Ford admits Ontario has a housing crisis. Data says it might be him.

  February 7, 2024 — Despite announcements, re-announcements and reverse announcements, Ontario’s PC government is further from bringing balance to the housing and rental markets than in 2022, when the PCs promised their policies would spur construction of 1.5 million housing units by 2031. Ontario’s poor outcomes stand in sharp contrast with results in British Columbia,…