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 [...]

24-Unit Revisionary Housing Project— Building on What Is
Ucluelet First Nation (UFN) spans nine reserves on the west coast of B.C.’s Vancouver Island; its main village of Ittatsoo has a registered population of about 620, but provides residence for approximately 200; the other 420 are either waiting for on-reserve housing, or living off-reserve, where monthly rents [...]

Community involvement breathes new life into a post-war affordable housing development
When large numbers of veterans returned home after the Second World War, it was essential to find them transitional housing while they reintegrated into society. Flora Place, in Winnipeg’s northern Dufferin neighbourhood, was one of these places. Built in 1947 on post-and-pad foundations, Flora Place’s [...]