Sarah Krzysik

Nov 19, 2024 | placecentre.smartprosperity.ca | Mike Moffatt |Sarah Krzysik

The Blueprint for More and Better Housing, released in early 2024, provided a plan for Canada to build 5.8 million affordable, resilient and low-carbon homes. Although many of the recommendations have proven popular with policymakers and the public, getting buy-in for the overall vision can be difficult. Too often, those policymakers and the public see the four goals of the Blueprint at odds with each other.

Nov 18, 2024 | placecentre.smartprosperity.ca | Mike Moffatt |Sarah Krzysik

Over the past six years, from Canada Day 2018 to Canada Day 2024, Canada's population has grown by over 4.2 million people, requiring a substantial increase in Canada's housing supply. This rapid naturally leads to the question, Which communities are getting it done when it comes to homebuilding? In this memo, Ontario Communities Falling Behind on Homebuilding, we benchmark homebuilding performance across Canada, by using a few different metrics to assess performance.

Nov 13, 2023 | placecentre.smartprosperity.ca | Jesse Helmer |Sarah Krzysik

There is a broad consensus that Canada is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis. The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation has estimated that 5.8 million homes, nationally, need to be built by 2030 in order to address the housing affordability crisis. In Ontario, the provincial target is 1.5 million homes.

Aug 17, 2023 | placecentre.smartprosperity.ca | Mike Moffatt |Sarah Krzysik

To keep up with an aging and growing population, it is projected that Ontario will need to build 1.5 million homes in the next ten years. Yet, Ontario has never built more than 850,000 homes in a ten-year period. Who is responsible for making this 1.5 million homes goal a reality, while making it happen in an environmentally responsible way?

Aug 15, 2023 | placecentre.smartprosperity.ca | Mike Moffatt |Sarah Krzysik

Rents have been increasing rapidly in many parts of the country, primarily caused by a lack of accessible, climate-friendly, affordable, and market-rate purpose-built rental units to house a growing population. Increasing rents inflict the most significant harm on the lowest-income Canadians, including seniors, people on fixed incomes, single-parent led households, students, newcomers to Canada, and Indigenous peoples.