National Housing Day 2007: Despite promises, few new homes and scarce dollars

National Housing Day is November 22, 2007 – which marks the day in 1998 when the mayors of Canada’s biggest cities declared homelessness a “national disaster”. Nine years on, senior levels of government have failed to deliver on agreements and commitments for new housing spending, and few new affordable homes have been built in recent years.

Publication Date: 
2007