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Canada’s housing market showed signs of life in May when sales rose for the first time in about six months, leading some to ...
A recent government report from the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. (CMHC) indicates that even a doubling of homebuilding activity in Canada would only restore housing affordability to levels seen ...
Conversations That Matter: Canada's housing crisis A conversations with Michael Geller about the direction of federal housing policy By Stuart McNish • Special To The Sun Published May 30, 2025 ...
Canada Housing Starts Climb 30% in April to 278,606 Published: May 15, 2025, 8:38 a.m. ET Share Resize ...
The Rapid Housing Initiative exceeded its target, creating nearly 4,700 new homes in short order. It proved that factory-built housing can be both fast and high-quality in Canada. Canada has the ...
The average rent in Vancouver is about 2,500 Canadian dollars per month, or $1,800, requiring a low six-figure salary to be considered affordable, according to Canada’s national housing agency.
Housing starts across Canada came in at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 214,155 units, a 3.3% drop from the month before, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday.
Carney’s Build Canada Homes plan calls for the Canadian government to become an actual builder of affordable housing—a strategy that the U.S. mostly abandoned in the 1970s—as well as provide ...
The tremendous volume of high-end housing purchases by non-Canadians was confirmed in a 2015 study by Yan. This new paper provides further context. It notes how what was happening to Metro ...
Source: The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Canada, 1981–2021 in the journal, The History of the Family Key findings include: ...
Canada's housing crisis is preventing millions from forming the households they want by Sachi Wickramasinghe, University of British Columbia Editors' notes ...