The Chronicle Herald (February 14, 2026) — Catherine Leviten-Reid and Hannah Main address the lack of oversight and regulation of private rental housing in the province, and propose urgent recommendations to ensure rental housing is safe, secure, and in good condition.
CBC News Nova Scotia (February 1o, 2026) — Amidst new housing developments and ongoing challenges in Cape Breton, Catherine Leviten-Reid weighs in on the importance of non-profit housing providers.
CBC News Nova Scotia (February 4, 2026) — Catherine Leviten-Reid cites homelessness count data amidst public discussion about homelessness and services in rural areas.
CBC News Nova Scotia (January 23, 2026) — Catherine Leviten-Reid discusses the importance of “the right kind of supply” amidst the development of new housing units.
CBC News Nova Scotia (January 3, 2026) — Experts weigh in on affordable housing supply shortages in an economy overrepresented by private, for-profit housing providers.
CBU Newsroom (October 16, 2025) — Announcing new funding for our partnership grant led by Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid at Cape Breton University, and discussing some findings from our first five years. Research efforts will expand for an additional three years, thanks to a joint SSHRC-CMHC initiative.
CBC News Nova Scotia (August 15, 2025) — Discussing supply and various housing programs in Nova Scotia, and the continued need to fund affordable housing.
Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Écosse (le mercredi 30 juillet 2025) — Le décompte des personnes itinérantes dans ces régions a augmenté, explique professeure Catherine Leviten-Reid est professeure Mary Sweatman.
CBC News Nova Scotia (July 22, 2025) — CMHC report shows that Ontario and Nova Scotia have the most significant housing supply gaps by province. Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid says, when increasing supply, we need to focus on affordability, such as developing public housing and non-profit housing rather than relying on the private sector which is profit-driven and thus charges high rents. Investing in housing providers that are not profit-driven will help to ensure that new units will be affordable for renters moving forward. Implementing rent control with vacancy control is among other recommended changes for ensuring rental housing is affordable for Nova Scotians. Watch the two-minute clip for more.
CBC News Nova Scotia (July 10, 2025) — Results are available for the homelessness count done in Nova Scotia’s Western Zone, and Catherine Leviten-Reid weighs in to talk about rural homelessness.
CBC News Nova Scotia (July 9, 2025) — Catherine Leviten-Reid explains why housing is still unaffordable for many renters in the city, despite signs of rents plateauing.
The Conversation (June 2, 2025) — learn about our latest research evidence on tenant economic wellbeing in this article from The Conversation (2-minute read).
University of Saskatchewan News (May 5, 2025) — The honorary title of distinguished professor is an award that celebrates lifetime achievement in research, scholarly, and artistic work. We are proud to congratulate our co-applicant Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine on being awarded this title in celebration of his career at the University of Saskatchewan. A leading expert in community health and epidemiology, Dr. Muhajarine’s work has been instrumental in shaping public health policies and improving community health outcomes.
CBC Listen – Information Morning Cape Breton (April 17, 2025) Listen to Catherine Leviten-Reid as she is interviewed to provide her analysis on the federal parties’ platforms on housing in the upcoming election (11 minutes).
CBC News Nova Scotia (April 17, 2025) Affordable housing and increasing supply are focuses among parties in this upcoming federal election. Experts in Nova Scotia have mixed reviews on the different parties’ election promises to make housing in Canada more affordable. Catherine Leviten-Reid weighs in.
CBC News Saskatchewan (March 24, 2025)
CBC News, Nova Scotia (March 13, 2025)
CBC News Nova Scotia (March 3, 2025)
Globe and Mail, Calgary (December 5, 2024)
CBC News, Nova Scotia (November 25, 2024)
PNI Atlantic News (November 8, 2024)
National Indigenous Homelessness Council (November 7, 2024)
CBC News, Nova Scotia (November 7, 2024)
PNI Atlantic News (November 6, 2024)
Fixing Up Housing Policy: From Research to Reality (July 3, 2024) — Catherine Leviten-Reid talks with Jim Dunn and Cynthia Belaskie of the Canada Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC) about housing policy in Canada and the work of our partnership grant.
CBC News (June 11, 2024) — Use this interactive article to explore which cities in Canada you could afford rent.
CBC News Nova Scotia (May 15, 2024) — As of March 31, 2024, Killam Apartment REIT owned 5,731 residential units in Halifax. Killam and CAPREIT say higher rents, lower utility costs contributed to income growth.
CBC News Nova Scotia (Feb 27, 2024)
CBC News, Nova Scotia (December 8th, 2023) — According to a Nova Scotia housing needs assessment, Cape Breton Regional Municipality is short 1,000 units right now. Cape Breton University professor and housing expert Catherine Leviten-Reid says the provincial report clearly identifies the need for a massive investment in public housing in CBRM.
CBC News Nova Scotia (October 12, 2023)
Acadie Nouvelle – Réseau.Presse (24 septembre 2023)
Saltwire (June 29, 2023) — Read and listen to Catherine Leviten-Reid delve into why the current rent supplement program in Nova Scotia is not working for tenants, and why change needs to happen.
The Conversation (August 7, 2023) — referencing our recent publication, ‘Can They Build or Not? Nonprofit Housing Development in an Era of Government Re-Engagement‘, this article showcases the federal government’s impact on housing in Canada.
The Halifax Examiner (June 27th, 2023) — Catherine Leviten-Reid talks about the new Canada-Nova Scotia Targeted Housing Benefit rent subsidy and makes recommendations for policy changes.
MooseJaw Today (June 11, 2023)
CBC News Nova Scotia (May 23, 2023) — Catherine Leviten-Reid talks about the urgent need for new housing builds in Nova Scotia. Leviten-Reid is a part of a recent study that found Nova Scotia needs to build or acquire over 30,000 units of deeply affordable, non-market housing in the next 10 years in order to accommodate housing demands.
CMHC, Ottawa (April 20, 2023) — New project entitled A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home: A Multi-disciplinary Longitudinal Outcomes Analysis of the National Housing Strategy is announced. This project will be co-directed by two Carleton researchers: Jacqueline Kennelly from the Sociology and Anthropology Department and William O’Brien of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
CBC News, Nova Scotia (April 5th, 2023) — New Dawn Enterprises and Ally Centre of Cape Breton, community partner organizations of our project grant, are awarded a $5 million Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI) fund within the fund’s city stream. The proposed project is now set to be built by early 2024 on New Dawn’s campus in the North End of Sydney, Cape Breton, NS.
CBC News Nova Scotia (March 9th, 2023) — Catherine Leviten-Reid comments on the low vacancy rate in Cape Breton and its impacts on housing accessibility, in a community where short-term rentals are impacting the available housing stock.
CBC News Nova Scotia (December 6th 2022) — Discussing the high demand for public housing in Nova Scotia, the long wait times for housing placements, and the public housing units that are currently sitting vacant despite it all. Nova Scotians are struggling while they sit on public housing wait lists for an average of 2 years.
Halifax Examiner (Jun. 23, 2022) — A 25-unit affordable housing complex in Lakeside, NS called The Sunflower that will provide housing for women, families, and gender-expansive people is almost complete. But women and gender-diverse people, who are vulnerable in a housing crisis, need more to keep them from facing homelessness and housing insecurity.
CBC News (Jun. 15, 2022) — This story is part of a series from CBC Cape Breton called The High Cost of Getting By. In the series, reporters examine how the rising cost of daily living is affecting people on the island. For the last several months, reporters from our newsroom spoke with people who are struggling because of the high costs of basic necessities like housing, food and home repairs.
Information Morning – Cape Breton with Steve Sutherland (Jun. 15, 2022) — Our Cape Breton Current Affairs Correspondent Brittany Wentzell takes a look at housing in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and why it’s so hard for low income people to get a decent place to live.
CTV News Saskatoon (Sep. 15, 2021) — Rent arrears are piling up. Homelessness is rising. And affordable housing agencies in Saskatoon are grappling with evictions from people on social assistance. “It’s becoming a perfect storm quite honestly,” said Quint Development Corporation executive director Len Usisken. One factor is a change to income assistance programs through the Ministry of Social Services, he said.
StarPhoenix (August 5th, 2021) — Co-Applicant Sarah Buhler at the University of Saskatchewan looked at 1,850 tenant hearings with the Saskatchewan Office of Residential Tenancies. During the first 9 months of the covid-19 pandemic, landlords won 9 out of every 10 cases. Read more here.
Regina Leader-Post (Aug. 4, 2021) — Landlords won nine of every 10 eviction hearings during the first nine months of the pandemic, according to a study that found officers rarely seemed to pay much attention to tenant hardships or COVID-19. The study, published this week by University of Saskatchewan law professor Sarah Buhler , looked at 1,850 eviction hearing decisions issued by the Office of Residential Tenancies (ORT) during 2020.
Carleton Newsroom (Nov. 23, 2020) — The Ottawa regional project is one part of a Canada-wide initiative called People, Places, Policies and Prospects: Affordable Rental Housing for Those in Greatest Need. It’s being funded through a housing partnership grant from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s National Housing Strategy, and Ottawa is one of four cities being studied.
Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan (Aug. 17, 2020) — A new nationwide research project is looking at affordable housing across the country. Jacqueline Kennelly, a sociology professor at Carleton University is leading the research in Ontario, with a focus on youth homelessness in Ottawa with the help of four formerly homeless youth, including Holly Petersen.
Cape Breton University Newsroom (July 31, 2020) — Professor Catherine Leviten-Reid, Community Economic Development, awarded $1.3 million in funding to lead pan-Canadian partnership grant focused on affordable rental housing.
Saskatoon StarPhoenix (Jul. 29, 2020) — University of Saskatchewan professor emerita Isobel Findlay is one of three researchers in the city collaborating on a nation-wide study on affordable housing, and why vulnerable people continue to fall through the cracks. Professor emerita Isobel Findlay is trying to answer tough questions about Saskatoon’s housing market.
CBC News (Jul. 29, 2020) — The City of Saskatoon’s affordable housing situation will be examined in a Canada-wide research project, including a University of Saskatchewan research team partnering with researchers across the country, to look at just how affordable housing programs affect vulnerable people and their families.
NationTalk (Jul. 28, 2020) — Cape Breton University (CBU) will lead a national research initiative on the importance of affordable rental housing for those in greatest need, with significant investments from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
Global News (Jul. 28, 2020) — Nine Saskatoon organizations are working with the University of Saskatchewan to determine which types of affordable housing programs yield the best results for various communities. Researchers in the prairies and Atlantic and central Canada will explore the effects of affordable rental housing on tenants, taking age, gender, race and sexuality into consideration.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University (Jul. 27, 2020)
USASK Research Profile and Impact (Jul. 27, 2020) — A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has partnered with researchers across Canada to study how different types of affordable rental housing impact the lives of marginalized people and families.
The Chronicle Herald (Jul. 27, 2020) — Cape Breton University will lead a five-year, $1.3-million national research initiative on the importance of affordable rental housing for those in greatest need.