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01Toronto's 2026 federal housing partnership: which of the 18 projects were already announced or under way, and why announced homes cannot be added upMost of the 5,605 homes Ottawa and Toronto announced in August 2026 were in projects the city had already announced or where site work had begun. Each government counts a building at the stage it pays for, so announced totals keep growing while Toronto's construction starts fall.ArticleHousing35 quotes · 3 sources · 15 min18 Oct

02Canadian recessions and the mortgage channel: rate decisions, CMHC, and five decades of housing-led downturnsEvery major Canadian downturn since 1980 carries a monetary-policy fingerprint, and housing is how the decision reaches people. The clearest case is 1990, where the campaign overshot its own target and Toronto prices did not pass their 1989 peak until 2002.ArticleHousing61 quotes · 1 source · 10 min10 Oct

03Canada's short-term rental rules: supply, prices, and the mid-term rental tier that never formedShort-term rentals add flexible supply, and competition lowers prices. Canadian cities banned them anyway — and cut off a tier between a hotel and a lease just as it was forming.ArticleHousing24 quotes · 2 sources · 5 min10 Oct

04Canada's short-term rental bans and rents: what returned to the long-term market, and what actually moved pricesCanadian cities restricted short-term rentals to bring homes back to renters. Few came back, rents fell for other reasons, and the bans squeezed a new kind of housing that sits between a hotel and a lease.ArticleHousing41 quotes · 2 sources · 7 min10 Oct