Mathieu Fleury says the Ontario government's housing bill doesn't focus enough on low rental vacancy rates. Ottawa's rental vacancy rate was 1.6 per cent in 2018, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and has remained consistently low since 2015. Housing and food insecurityFleury was among the housing advocates who spoke at an event hosted by the Ottawa Food Bank Wednesday evening. Michael Maidment, the Ottawa Food Bank's executive director, said his organizations sees the result of the lack of affordable housing. Question of powers for cityThe province's omnibus housing bill covers how developers build and the development charges they pay cities.

Source: CBC News May 09, 2019 12:45 UTC