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Author(s): Martine August
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
This report serves to introduce and summarize the findings from a series of reports commissioned by the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate on the financialization of housing. It begins by considering the social value of housing and the emergence of the right to housing in international and Canadian law. It then defines financialization and maps the role of states in favouring financialization in the housing industry, as well as the investment...
Author(s): Martine August
Organization: Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
Publication Date: 2022
This report presents an overview of the financialization of rental housing in Canada. After describing the phenomenon of financialization in general terms, it considers the current state of financialization in Canada’s stock of rental housing by analyzing the policies that have catalyzed it. It interrogates the evolving role of financial firms in the Canadian housing market, with a particular focus on the period during and following the COVID-19...