We are thrilled to share a sneak peek at the Seattle Loop, a fiscal strategy for generating public money for urgent needs in and beyond the city of Seattle. The Strategy: By establishing …

The Freshet News is a new voice for Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities with a mission to put community back in community news.

Policymakers are staring at starts, while sales show the collapse

The PM’s spurning of the NDP could generate energy for angered progressive movements.

As manager at Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society, he helped people schedule medical appointments and find housing – and reversed hundreds of overdoses and trained others to do the same

Opinion: Building new supply while protecting existing tenants is not an impossibility akin to violating the laws of physics.

HALIFAX – Today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced a plan to fight soaring rents and protect renters, starting by implementing national rent control—a policy that will stop predatory corporate landlo...

Thanks to decades of concerted action by Canadian businesses and governments—often working in opposition to workers and the broader public interest—the Canadian economy is now deeply integrated with o...

The corporate giant feared a ‘breakthrough’ after Quebec workers unionized and were set to secure the first collective agreement in the world

This application is for people wishing to run for local office. The Feminist Campaign School is for values-aligned candidates who are underrepresented in local government positions because of any par...

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Council looks into fears of renter displacement, pushes ahead on density.

Four reflections on a superheated market as we mark National Housing Day.

BC Living wage 2024

We urge decision-makers to take action beyond wearing an orange shirt.

At a press conference on July 22, Ontario Premier Doug Ford stood before a room full of reporters and told them, to scattered applause, that new homes would “pop up like mushrooms everywhere” if the B...

Our new Logic Check columnist probes the Eby government’s inconsistencies on vacancy control.

If landlords wanted to protect themselves from the risk of rate changes, they could have purchased a fixed-rate mortgage

Two B.C. landlords whose costs have skyrocketed – due to their variable-rate mortgage – have been allowed to impose huge rent hikes on their tenants to offset their financial losses.

More than 17,000 homes will be built in areas with the greatest housing needs as housing targets have been established in the third set of priority communities in the province.

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh