Week in Review: March 20, 2025

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that ECOHH noted this week:

From ECOHH’s social media

• Saturday Roundie to “Honour our Ancestors that have passed in the Inner City”

  • March 22, Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 3:30-6PM Pipe ceremony, 6-11PM Round dance

  • Giveaway, First 15 drummers are paid, security, sober event

  • Emcee: Lyndon Aginas & Monty Sunchild, Stickman: Nathan Rattlesnake

Relevant housing news 

• Trump’s Economic Agenda Could Push the Housing Crisis Over the Edge

• Housing is a form of harm reduction, say experts

• Can Jasper fix its decades-long housing supply problem?

• Smoking to be banned in N.W.T. public housing units, minister says

• How the N.W.T will enforce a smoking ban in its public housing units

• Homelessness on P.E.I. has more than doubled in 3 years, non-profit finds

• Timmins council picks rural and unserviced site for new encampment location

• Big increase in people experiencing homelessness in eastern Nova Scotia: study

• Ending youth homelessness starts with preventing it in the first place, say advocates

• Vancouver’s last few pay phones still serve community as a 'lifeline'

As always, we recommend checking out these sources for additional information on housing and homelessness

• Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) 

• Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

• Canadian Housing & Renewal Association (CHRA) 

• Federal Housing Advocate

• Homeless Hub (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness) 

• Homeward Trust 

• Housing Complex  

• Make the Shift   

• National Right to Housing Network (NRHN)  

• Social Housing & Human Rights (SHHR) 

• Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network