Editorial: Federal strategy punts affordability crisis to city hall

The federal Liberal government, which bills itself as the champion of the middle class, seems to have left that target market out of its national housing strategy unveiled Wednesday, National Housing Day.
While its focus on the most vulnerable is laudable, the strategy responds to affordable housing rather than housing affordability, the latter being the crisis that affects countless Canadians trying to find a place to live in the country’s major cities, notably Vancouver and Toronto. The