Housing Minister Wants to Make New Homes Affordable Without Current Homes Losing Value. Is That Possible?

Housing Minister Wants to Make New Homes Affordable Without Current Homes Losing Value. Is That Possible?

News Analysis A day after taking office, Canada’s new Housing Minister Gregor Robertson faced scrutiny for suggesting the solution to Canada’s housing crisis is not to bring prices down but to build more affordable housing. “Do you think home prices need to go down?” a reporter asked Robertson on May 14, before the new minister headed to his first cabinet meeting. “No,” Robertson said. “I think that we need to deliver more supply, make sure the …

For-profit director says 107,000 housing association homes are on the market

Housing associations have put 107,000 homes on the market this year, a director at large for-profit provider Legal & General Affordable Homes has said.