Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s more effective to supplement rents in times of high vacancy because each dollar spent gets the tenant more
Author: Nick Falvo
Nick Falvo is Director of Research and Data at the Calgary Homeless Foundation. His area of research is social policy, with a focus on poverty, housing, homelessness and social assistance—he also has a budding interest in post-secondary education policy.
Nick has a PhD in public policy from Carleton University, where he was supervised by Saul Schwartz; the title of his thesis was Three Essays on Social Assistance in Canada: A Multidisciplinary Focus on Ontario Singles. It was also at Carleton that Nick developed and taught one of Canada’s only university-level courses on affordable housing and homelessness.
Saskatchewan’s budget is Robin Hood in reverse
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increasing provincial sales tax – including on children’s clothes – will hurt lower-income households more than higher-income ones