Media release: Corporate tax breaks worsening housing crisis
For immediate release: September 23, 2024
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18 September 2024
Canadians are suffering from an ongoing housing crisis. While home ownership is increasingly out of reach for multiple generations, average rent prices are outpacing the cost of living, which is contributing to poverty, intimate partner violence, unsafe living conditions, and increased houselessness.
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