If you had high hopes of reform on the affordable housing front post-election, your bubble may burst in a way one won’t in the housing market. 

According to non-partisan housing affordability research group Generation Squeeze, none of the national parties’ platform promises would ensure housing affordability for all Canadians. 

From the Liberals’ plan to introduce a federal rent-to-own program and the Conservatives’ promise of a federal Beneficial Ownership Registry, to the NDP Party’s commitment to build 500,000 affordable homes in five years, housing is front and centre of the federal election.

Generation Squeeze scored the platforms of the Liberal, Conservative, New Democratic, and Green parties across 15 criteria associated with its comprehensive policy framework for housing affordability. 

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