In 2022, the province added 3.5 new residents per home built.
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In 2022, Alberta’s population grew by 164,793 people, dwarfing the 29,837 new housing completions.
In 2022, the country's population increased by 4.7 people for every new home built.
The average Canadian family paid 45.3 per cent of its income in taxes last year.
According to the province's housing task force, 1.5 million homes must be built over a decade to close the housing gap.
From 2013 to 2022, Canada’s population grew by 427,439 people annually yet only 196,872 housing units were completed annually.
Non-resident investors owned only 2.5 per cent of all houses in the province.
The country's rental vacancy rate fell to 1.9 per cent—the lowest it’s been since 2001.
Calgary's rental vacancy rate for purpose-built rental units fell from 5.1 per cent to 2.7 per cent.