Solidarity Housing

Creating the tools to move beyond private homeownership.
Turn private houses into co-ops/CLTs.

@solidarityhousing

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

Help us spread the word about this project to homeowners. We've created this homeowner survey to help improve the model and get a sense of where homeowners are at. Please share widely! https://t.co/jYfgRlcLeq

[Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) @HousingRightsCA]

A must-read from housing expert @CWhitzman. She proposes refocusing the National Housing Strategy through a "Two Million Homes Program" that would protect existing affordable housing, scale-up non-profit housing & address financialization through taxation.
https://t.co/YP0sDmu1L3

[SEAN ORR @seanorr]

Can we talk about how non resident property owners can vote in the civic election? #vanpoli #VanCityCouncil

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

In 2021 (and 2020), 'Real estate, rental, and leasing' - which does not even include construction - made up an extremely bloated 20% of BC's GDP. Yet another reason why we need to #decommodify housing.

#coops #communitylandtrusts #socialhousing #housingcrisis #BCPoli #CanPoli

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

In BC, 24.5% of all homes were owned by investors in 2020, and 43.3% of new homes built between 2016-22 were bought by investors. More reasons why we need to #decommodify housing

#coops #communitylandtrusts #socialhousing #housingcrisis #BCPoli #CanPoli

https://t.co/2OxqMEKDWH

[Thom Armstrong @thomjarmstrong]

@Kehyslop @bychrischeung @TheTyee There’s no statistical or sociological basis for a fixed ratio. When the first National Housing Act was introduced in 1944 the ratio was 20%.

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

In 2021 there were over 1.3 million vacant homes in Canada, another reason why we need to #decommodify housing.

#coops #communitylandtrusts #socialhousing #housingcrisis

https://t.co/hPo6r3uqDD

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

Help us spread the word about this project to homeowners. We've created this homeowner survey to help improve the model and get a sense of where homeowners are at. First 150 BC respondents eligible for $15 honorarium, see survey for info. Please share!
https://t.co/iVeK8MD1g4

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

Great article from @bmdoucet succinctly explaining why we need to #decommodify housing in Canada.

#BCRentCrisis #HousingJustice #BCPoli #CanPoli

https://t.co/WfpyTIB1xN

[sloane (sîpihkopiyesîs) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @cottoncandaddy]

I just learned that if a hermit crab finds a new shell that is too big it will wait for other hermit crabs who need new shells to gather and then they will organize themselves by size and trade shells and I am pissed that the crabs have a better housing market than we do

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Naomi Singer, the artist who has given so much to Vancouver through community arts events like the beloved Winter Solstice Lantern Festival, is able to afford to stay in Vancouver because she lives in a coop, now threatened by the market real-estate-heavy Broadway Plan.. #vanpoli

[karen ward @kwardvancouver]

terminology shift:

the overhoused

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

Canada's housing market is uniquely monstrous

[Canada Housing Crisis @rCanadaHousing]

Housing affordability - Canada vs. the USA.

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

For more on all of this, check out this helpful primer by Canadian political economist Alan Walks. His is one of the clearest explanations we've found: https://t.co/HjNBYABYzu (8/8)

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

A thread on the policies behind the #HousingCrisis in Canada, and specifically how the Canadian government created the legal and financial scaffolding for massive speculation and skyrocketing housing prices over the last 35 years: (1/8)

[Solidarity Housing @SolHousing]

The Canadian government has not only failed to respond to speculation, it has given speculators the tools and encouraged their use. The only way to shelter real estate from speculation is to remove it from the private market. Decommodify housing. (7/8)