One of Canada’s Most Severe Housing Gaps Draws a $72 Million Bet

Vancity, one of Canada’s largest credit unions, and an Indigenous-owned private credit firm launched a C$100 million ($72.3 ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits

TORONTO — A Toronto hospital network will double its unique permanent housing program for homeless people who frequently ...

Nowhere to stay: Canada needs a rights and responsibility approach to international student housing

An intergovernmental student housing task force is needed to work in tandem with universities and colleges to uphold ...
The Hamilton Spectator

Apartment fire in St. George displaces 22 residents

At least 22 people, two non-profits and two businesses are displaced from a seniors apartment complex following a fire on Sunday. Eastern Charlotte Fire Department responded to a fire on Main Street ...
Wall Street Journal

The Rent-Control Slums of New York

Journal Editorial Report: Progressives are happy with New York's mayor as the party's poster boy. Photo: Richard Swafford/Zuma Press Talk about socialist irony. Zohran Mamdani said last week that his ...
Indiatimes

Court junks classification of Godrej Vikhroli land as slum

Mumbai: In a relief for one of India's oldest industrial houses, the Bombay city civil court has quashed a decades-old govt notification that sought to classify Godrej & Boyce manufacturing land in ...
Hindustan Times

HC directs SRA to fast-track slum dwellers’ complaints

The court was hearing a batch of 64 petitions filed between 2019 and 2025. These petitions highlighted issues such as non-payment of transit rent, delays in handing over permanent homes to eligible ...
moneycontrol.com

Surat on track to become India's first slum-free city: Gujarat govt

Gujarat minister Jitu Vaghani on Wednesday said Surat was moving closer to becoming the country's first slum-free city with a population of 70-80 lakh. Currently, Chandigarh holds the distinction of ...
The Star

2 dead, 3 hospitalized in Canada's apartment fire

OTTAWA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Two people died and three others were taken to a hospital after a fire broke out at an apartment building in Charlottetown, the capital of Canada's Prince Edward Island, on ...
The Atlantic

The ‘Filthy Little Slum Child’ Who Remade the American Right

Norman Podhoretz’s friends—there were no dissenting voices among them—warned him not to publish Making It. Lionel Trilling, the high priest of the New York intellectuals, told Podhoretz that his ...
Longmont Times-Call

George Will: This moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. George Will / Washington Post In 1967, novelist Gwyn Griffin published a World War II novel, “An ...
Wall Street Journal

Argentina’s Slums Abandoned Peronism—and Handed Milei the Win

WSJ explains how the Trump administration is able to provide $20 billion to Argentina and why it is propping up an ideological ally. Photo: Ksenia Shaikhutdinova/WSJ BUENOS AIRES—For decades, the poor ...