homebuilding

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Ontario set to fall far short of homebuilding goal

Among Canada’s largest metropolitan areas, the three with the fewest housing units per 1,000 were in Ontario.


3:30AM
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Insufficient supply relative to demand means fewer homes available to renters and buyers alike.


11:17AM
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Groundhog Day in the Golden State—how plans to boost affordability in California keep failing

The situation in California has important implications for Canada’s least-affordable cities including Vancouver and Toronto.


5:30PM
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Land-use regulation in “superstar” U.S. cities—same old sad story

The typical number of approval bodies with veto power over rezoning increased in many cities.


1:53PM
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Ottawa’s homebuyer plan unlikely to work, for at least two reasons

Increasing demand for something in short supply will result in higher prices.


2:49PM
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Fewer vacancies bad news for Montreal renters

Average rents grew by 2.5 per cent, amounting to about $30 more per month.


9:10AM
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Ford must back up housing rhetoric with concrete policies

In the Greater Golden Horseshoe, approval timelines average one-and-a-half years.


1:47PM
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Scrapping Robertson’s duplex plan will do nothing to make Vancouver more affordable

Housing affordability was easily the top issue on the campaign trail.


2:47PM
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At last count, the GTA rental vacancy rate was 1.1 per cent.