Current Insights
Core housing need reaches an historical high
Nov 15, 2017 Statistics Canada, in collaboration with CMHC today released estimates of core housing need based on the 2016 census data. This is a timely release, coming on the cusp of the federal government’s release of the long awaited national housing strategy,...
Some initial insights from latest data release from 2016 Census – Housing Trends
With the latest release of data from the 2016 Census providing data on households and housing, augmenting the prior release with incomes, it is possible to explore some of the key trends that have occurred over the past five years, and to...
New report on repurposing federal social housing funds
Sept 2017 Steve has just published a research brief examining the options and impacts of redirecting federal savings from expiring operating agreements..... it is available here CURE-Policy Brief #8: Reinvesting Federal Social Housing Baseling Funds.pdf
The compounding effect of rising home prices – and disparity for first time buyers
The financial media have commented extensively on the rise of home prices in Canada, drawing on the ratio of incomes to home prices. (See for example the Economist Aug 31st 2013, Global House Prices: Mixed Messages and Globe and Mail Sept 5th House prices in Canada’s...