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Federal Reforms to Improve Housing Affordability
Housing policy should focus on closing the demand-supply gap, not inducing demand or stifling supply
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Canada’s Growing Housing Gap: Comparing Population Growth and Housing Completions in Canada, 1972–2022
Housing completions not keeping pace with population— 2018 to 2022, population growth averaged more than 550,000 per year compared to only 200,000 new homes
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Making Room for Growth: Housing Intensification in Canada's Cities, 2016-2021
Despite housing shortage, 1-in-4 neighbourhoods in Canadian cities saw number of housing units actually decline from 2016-2021
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Canada’s Housing Mismatch: Many Canadians prefer ground-oriented homes, but not enough are being built
More housing was built in Canada during the 1970s than now
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Job Creation and Housing Starts in Canada’s Largest Metropolitan Areas
Number of new homes in Vancouver and Toronto metro areas not keeping pace with number of new jobs
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Changes in the Affordability of Housing in Canadian and American Cities, 2006–2016
American cities show that growing, prospering metropolitan areas can also be affordable to live in
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Who Bears the Burden of Property Taxes in Canada’s Largest Metropolitan Areas?
Commercial property tax rates in Canada’s biggest cities two to four times higher than residential rates, with little rationale
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Comparing Municipal Finances in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
City of Toronto spent $4,010 per person in 2016, the most of any GTA municipality
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Comparing Municipal Government Finances in Metro Vancouver, 2018 Edition
Government spending at Vancouver city hall 84% higher, per resident, than Surrey
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Room to Grow: Comparing Urban Density in Canada and Abroad
Canada’s biggest cities much less dense than other major U.S., international urban centres