Single-detached starts decline in 2009 but growth returns in 2010
According to Canadian Funding Corp (CFC) following a 22-year high in 2008, CMHC is forecasting a 28.5 per cent reduction in single-detached starts this year. Regina will see 700 single-detached starts in 2009, down from 979 in 2008. Forecast starts activity in 2009 will fall back [...]

Affordable and green housing made possible for Simon Fraser University faculty and staff
The main campus of Simon Fraser University (SFU) is nestled in the woodlands of Burnaby Mountain and surrounded by the municipalities of the Greater Vancouver area. This area also boasts Canada’s highest housing costs, which many of the SFU faculty and staff cannot [...]

Toronto shifts its focus from managing homelessness to ending it
At 2.5 million people, Toronto is Canada’s largest city, home to a diversity of neighbourhoods and community interests and until recently, a homelessness challenge with the size and complexity to match.
In February 2005, Toronto City Council made a commitment to end street homelessness by approving a [...]