housing affordability

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Mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart wants to reach 85,000 new housing units over 10 years.


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According to a report commissioned by the province, more than 115,000 new housing units were awaiting approval in six Metro Vancouver municipalities.


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Toronto's changing whether you like it or not—might as well be for the better

The cost of buying and renting is driven upward by a scarcity of available homes.


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Developer fees comprised 13.2 per cent of municipal revenue in the City of Vancouver in 2016.


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Both Toronto and Vancouver require at least one space per residential unit in most of the city.


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The Horgan government now says it will peg allowable rent increases to inflation, estimated at 2.5 per cent for 2019.


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The owners of 67,000 lots currently zoned for single-family housing can now rebuild their homes as duplexes.


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The imbalance between the number of available units and the number of would-be renters drives up rents.


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Survey says large majorities of homeowners in Metro Vancouver and the Greater Toronto Area want housing prices to stop rising.


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Seattle’s rental vacancy rate jumped to 5.4 per cent—five times that of the GTA.