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It is not really news that condos in Canada’s downtown urban areas are often bought by young, single professionals. City councils in several cities have struggled to persuade developers to add multi-family units to their buildings. And the developers point out that families don’t want condos.
The problem with marketing condos almost exclusively to young professionals [...]
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On Monday, December 7th, during the executive committee meeting, councillors and the mayor received a report from the engineering department regarding the process that is required to submit the Ross School building for government funding consideration as an affordable housing project.
The problem that has been brought up is that Moose Jaw does not actually own [...]
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Atlantic Canada continues to have the most affordable housing markets in Canada, after experiencing relatively modest increases in homeownership costs during the 3rd quarter noted the latest quarterly housing report released on November 25th, 2009 by RBC Economics.
The RBC Affordability measure for Atlantic Canada captures the proportion of pre-tax household income needed to service the [...]
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With the recent news of four apartment buildings in the city of Moose Jaw being sold to a new landlord, who is going to raise rates considerable is bad news for many people.
As it stands, the speculation is that the rate hike is being done to urge the tenants to move elsewhere, so the building [...]
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Moose Jaw’s Ernie Penney is running for Mayor, and one of the major discussions included in his platform was increasing affordable housing.
On Thursday evening, Moose Jaw mayoral candidate Ernie Penney spoke to a 27 person crown, outlining his campaign platform for the 2009 municipal election.
As I said above, Penney made it clear that an issue [...]
