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My blog posts revolve around my interests and vocation as a historian: the intersection of history and contemporary church life, the intersection of history and contemporary politics, serendipitous discoveries in archives or on research trips, publications and research projects, upcoming conferences, and speaking engagements.
I sometimes blog for two other organizations, the Canadian Baptist Historical Society and the Centre for Post-Christendom Studies. The views expressed in these blogs represent the views of the authors, and not necessarily those of any organizations with which they are associated. |
 Canada is facing a housing crisis marked by unaffordable houses, lack of homes, ridiculously high rental costs, and a dismal failure to build enough units to alleviate the crisis. And inflation and high interest rates pile on even more pressures. As a result, countless people are homeless, living in undesirable conditions, or even on the streets. It is a complete mess with no end in sight.
But as I recently discovered it is not the first time Canada has gone through a housing crisis. While recently reading some church periodicals from the later years of the Second World War and the immediate postwar period I discovered some commentary on what the churches considered to be a pressing and alarming housing crisis. What follows are some brief observations on the churches’ response.
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