Canada’s federal housing advocate told a House of Commons committee on May 9 that the profit-driven housing market is “harming people” and should be regulated. She said that only regulations will lower prices and that the market-driven housing industry is not working well.
Marie-Josée Houle, who was appointed in February 2022 to the position under the National Housing Strategy Act, said her job is to be a “watchdog for housing and homelessness in Canada.”
A report published by her office in June 2022, titled “The Financialization of Multi-Family Rental Housing in Canada,” suggested that buildings owned by landlords who “violate human rights” should be expropriated by the federal government, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter….