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“Ontario’s university funding model is simply less funding, year after year.” @CCPA_Ont’s new, detailed analysis on how Ontario has aggressively and consistently cut university funding - more than any other province. #onted, #onpoli #CdnPSE policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-…
Rent strikes across Canada are a response to an increasingly untenable situation for Canadian renters says @ricardo_tranjan, of our Ontario office, noting the housing market is set up to make profit but sometimes goes too far. The Big Story podcast. vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/11/28/ren…
Everything you need to know about rent strikes with @CCPA_Ont senior researcher @ricardo_tranjan "the housing market is set up for profit creation...becomes too greedy, and starts squeezing too much out of tenants." toronto.citynews.ca/2023/11/28/ren…
Join us on Dec 7 for a housing conversation "Organizing the Tenant Class" with author Ricardo Tranjan and local housing advocates! Dec. 7th, 7pm at XCues 551 Sargent ave. Winnipeg #housingrights @CCPAMB @WBCommunityOrg @HousingRightsCA
Ricardo Tranjan makes the point that gains at the table are being lost as the cost of housing continues to soar #OFL2023
🔥🔥🔥@YSWtenants union Chairperson Sharlene Henry and Ricardo Tranjan- Author & Senior Researcher of Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives are here with us to discuss tenant organizing and why housing is a labour issue.
#EnoughIsEnough #OnLab #OnPi
@Pekka_Reinio @OFLabour @JennVanGennip @waltonmom @Pattycoates Thanks for having me!
Great to speak with @ricardo_tranjan in #Barrie about his powerful book The Tenant Class before he heads off to the @OFLabour convention to continue his advocacy work. @JennVanGennip
@waltonmom @Pattycoates
"On housing, the fall fiscal update is more spin than substance." Check out the full analysis by @ccpa's @hadrianmk & @MarcLeeCCPA monitormag.ca/articles/belea…
@MikePMoffatt 🤔💭 "why haven't we found any definitive, win-win solution in the more than one hundred years we have talked about a 'housing crisis' in Canada?" 🖊️ Ricardo Tranjan 📕 The Tenant Class btlbooks.com/book/the-tenan…
@ricardo_tranjan read about your work in a Maclean’s article. You are absolutely right that more supply will not solve the problem. Cheering for you!
Winnipeg: Dec 7th Join @ricardo_tranjan & tenant organizers/housing activists for the launch of The Tenant Class and a discussion of how we can organize the tenant class in MB. Supported by @R2Hwpg @CCPAMB please spread the word! Check out the book here: btlbooks.com/book/the-tenan…
@gillesenvrac Absolument. L'approche est correcte, mais les montants ne sont pas suffisants. Et il faudrait que ce soit une agence publique qui construise, pour que l'argent aille plus loin.
« Le Québec s’y prend de la bonne façon pour rendre le logement abordable ». Oui, c’est mieux que le fédéral… mais le Qc a d’abord aboli AccèsLogis pour créer Logement abordable, ouvert aux promoteurs privés… @ricardo_tranjan policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/magazines/n…
Le fédéral a choisi la mauvaise approche pour stabiliser les loyers, une fois de plus. Selon @ricardo_tranjan, au lieu de donner plus d’argent aux promoteurs, Ottawa doit suivre l'exemple du Québec en investissant dans les logements sociaux. options-po.li/49UGk99
Whose book made it to a @DandQ best-of-2023 list? @ricardo_tranjan did! For his book, The Tenant Class! @CCPA_Ont mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/best-of-…
"A housing system that serves all but one group is not in a state of crisis; it is one based on structural inequality and economic exploitation." The solution? "tenant organizing and activism to change the power structures." @ricardo_tranjan @CCPA_Ont saltwire.com/atlantic-canad…
@kellr2010 @perreaux @ricardo_tranjan @IRPP It's too much like going through a middleman, and you know how often they like to take a cut. The feds should fund these projects directly, employ local construction companies, and set the housing rental rates for those units. Possibly some mix of the two approches could work.
@kellr2010 @perreaux @ricardo_tranjan @IRPP Then why don't they already?
@ForsmanMichael @perreaux @ricardo_tranjan @IRPP The local governments are better suited to know where to invest and build.
@kellr2010 @perreaux @ricardo_tranjan @IRPP They could also do it through CMHC directly contracting to build housing and thereby retain federal ownership. Much like when PetroCan was a crown corporation.
@perreaux @ForsmanMichael @ricardo_tranjan @IRPP That is exactly what the federal government has done by directly giving money to the municipalities.
For @ricardo_tranjan, Canada is not in a housing crisis b/c the situation is not "surprising or wildly undesirable." Instead, it's "a permanent state of affairs that harms people in, or in need of, rental housing; roughly 1/3 of the country’s households." policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/nove…
@JeremyGWithers @ricardo_tranjan Minor, but important distinction: Co-ops & NFPs are still 'private sector', but when mandate of such orgs are to provide affordable housing, AH will be built. Asking for-profit sector to build NFP housing has been an abject failure. Look at inclusionary zoning policies.
@perreaux @ricardo_tranjan @IRPP I couldn't agree more. A socially conscious government needs to be leading the way in the social housing game.
Ricardo Tranjan: The federal government has chosen the wrong approach to stabilize rents. Again. Provinces should follow Quebec's lead and invest in public housing, co-ops, and not-for-profit housing. @ricardo_tranjan @IRPP policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/nove…
@JeremyGWithers @ricardo_tranjan Yeah because government can buy and build anything for a market price and under budget. Right n
@SullivanRay @ricardo_tranjan @ccpa But will poor people donate $1200 to have dinner the mayor? 🍽
A housing system that serves all but one group is not in a state of crisis; it is one based on structural inequality and economic exploitation, writes @ricardo_tranjan. Read this excerpt from his book The Tenant Class, published by @readBTLbooks. thewalrus.ca/there-is-no-ho…
@JohnPasalis @ricardo_tranjan The only true solution to housing in this country is to take the shackles off business when it comes to housing including rent control and CMHC.
@ricardo_tranjan @JohnPasalis Quebec is different than the rest of Canada. No rational person would ever invest in Quebec real estate. So the government must step in to get building done.
@ccpa @ricardo_tranjan Here's my gripe. I followed and supported CCPA for decades. But you just came out with policy papers that never amounted to anything. Seems like you are nothing but an over-hyped NGO whose official role is to vent the perpetual fuckery. I wonder if anyone else sees it this way?
@ricardo_tranjan I don't think the question is whether the Feds should invest in market housing OR non-market housing I think they should invest in both But I agree that they should invest far more in non-market housing. The private sector is not going to build affordable rentals
@JohnPasalis Ottawa picked the dicey road to lower rents. Quebec is right not to follow: instead of handing more money to developers, it plans to invest in public, co-op, and not-for-profit housing. It makes sense. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/nove…