
President & CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness @CAEHomelessness. Find me on Threads @timrichter2024
Calgary
Joined April 2010
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Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Replying to @LaurieAdkin
🎯 It's tough to label an entire party far-right, but when the premier's office is this 👇 open about their worldview, it's much, much easier.
Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Apparently I overthought the connections between the AfD and far-right populists in Alberta.
Our own Premier's Office is drawing the direct line for all of us, in plain sight. 👇
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Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Policy approaches to prevent homelessness requires a measure of what income leaves one at greatest risk. Colleague Rita Wilkins and I are pleased that our HICO measure is being used in a proposal for a new Housing Benefit. caeh.ca/transforming-the-can…
@policy_school @CAEHomelessness
Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
51 years ago, my dad saw Tanya Tucker live - she was 16, he was 17. My whole life, he’s talked about that concert. I just got him tickets for @tanyatucker @calgarystampede for Father’s Day!
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There should be no limitation period on recognizing the courage of Canadians. Bravo Zulu @CanadianCross & all parties. 🇨🇦
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We're not going anywhere. @VotetoStayAB
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Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Voting on whether to have a vote is a ridiculous lack of provincial leadership.
Calgary is a globally connected city. Separation uncertainty is costing us jobs.
We have real work to do: building homes, improving public safety, fixing infrastructure, growing our economy, and making life better.
Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
I am in a state of dissociative awe by how incredibly stupid, dangerous, and idiotic this all is. Just the inevitable result of a generation of unserious leadership and Conservative and Canadian dysfunction. readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson-…
Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
“We’re all Canadian now.”
Rousing @StephenMarche op-ed in @nytimes - read it to the end.
nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opini… via @NYTOpinion
#cdnpoli
Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
New essay from Tim Richter and me in the Globe
@MarkJCarney has set the right national goals and has an ambitious agenda to fix housing and homelessness.
But it won’t work if provinces aren’t forced to the table.
Time for Canada Housing Accord
#cdnpoli
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Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Excellent piece by @tylermeredith in the Globe today, calling for what many have been saying for a long time:
We need the federal government to push the provinces (especially Ontario & BC) to fix their housing, land, municipal, and planning systems.
Ontario under Ford has spent nearly a decade shifting the blame to the Feds or local councils for what is largely a provincial responsibility.
We can’t keep poking at this; serious housing reform is needed. If there was serious effort at a national accord here, I would support it. But even without one, the Feds need to apply pressure to Ontario and BC specifically to change.
New essay from Tim Richter and me in the Globe
@MarkJCarney has set the right national goals and has an ambitious agenda to fix housing and homelessness.
But it won’t work if provinces aren’t forced to the table.
Time for Canada Housing Accord
#cdnpoli
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Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
On Sunday @MarkJCarney @gregorrobertson launched an audacious vision for Build Canada Homes.
This is a historic time for housing policy in Canada.
Next week Carolyn Whitzman, me and Alan Broadbent will talk how to build affordable housing at scale @CANURB
Register (free): us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Key findings of a recent US study on homeless encampments:
-Sweeps increase both mortality & spending
-Providing housing saves lives
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4057…
#EndHomelessness
Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
Preventing homelessness is more cost-effective than dealing with the issue after the fact. This requires knowing who is at imminent risk of losing their housing. That is what he Homelessness Income Cut Off (HICO) does. @policy_school @calgaryhomeless
homelesshub.ca/blog/2025/hom…
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Just in time for your weekend listening — today @MikePMoffatt @ronmortgageguy and I recorded a Housing Policy @TheHerleBurly Pod that will be up soon.
There is some agreement.
And some arguing.
#cdnpoli #BuildCanadaHomes
Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 retweeted
City count of Torontonians experiencing homelessness has more than doubled from 2021 trib.al/X863911
This is very encouraging news! @gregorrobertson showed real passion & leadership on ending homelessness as Vancouver mayor but was left hanging by the province and Feds at the time
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Now we’ll have a federal housing Minister with proven leadership on homelessness paired with a hard charging PM @MarkJCarney determined to solve the housing crisis. Big things are possible.
An excellent letter from the brilliant @homeless_law to @fordnation on Bill 6. Policies that criminalize homelessness fail to address encampments or community safety. Kudos @Diana_C_McNally for bringing this forward
Thank you to the National @homeless_law Center in D.C. for this letter to @fordnation re: Bill 6, which criminalizes encampment residents. The U.S. has seen how policies that criminalize homeless people fail to address encampments or community safety. Bill 6 must be rescinded.
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Want to send a message to @fordnation and the Ontario government?
Help us tell them that Ontarians need housing — not punishment. That we want a government that protects us from Trump instead of acting like Trump.
Sign and share our petition now: tinyurl.com/RescindBill6
Today, I released a letter, signed by 67 organizations working across Ontario, asking @fordnation to rescind Bill 6. We can't adopt Trumpian policies to punish encampments; people need proven solutions — especially housing. Read our letter: tinyurl.com/EJC-Bill6




















