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Andy Crosby
Andrew Crosby (he/him/il) is in the final stages of completing his PhD in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin land. His research engages with various themes relating to housing justice—including tenant resistance to the financialization of rental housing, domicide, liveability, demoviction, and gentrification.
Hate the high cost of rent? Blame the 1990s.
Bewildered by the high cost of housing? Wondering how we got to this place in Canada? To understand why we’re here now, we need to look back thirty years to policy decisions being made in the early 1990s.
The financialization of rental housing in Canada
Canada is experiencing a permanent rental housing affordability crisis, which has only intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic began. At the same time, we’re seeing a greater consolidation of rental housing apartments by financial firms, accelerating the “financialization of rental housing,” a trend underway in Canada since the 1990s.
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