Metro Vancouver’s housing crunch exists primarily because there aren’t enough new homes getting built.
housing supply
February 14, 2018
9:13AM
February 8, 2018
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The price of homes—like the price of anything—is determined by both demand and supply.
January 16, 2018
5:00AM
Brooklyn is as populous as Toronto but less than a third as large geographically.
January 9, 2018
9:00AM
Both New York and London are more than twice as dense as Toronto.
November 28, 2017
12:12PM
In Toronto the approvals process costs nearly $47,000 per housing unit (on average), compared to $21,000 in Hamilton.
November 10, 2017
9:30AM
In 2011, average rents were just over $1,000—in 2016, they jumped to $1,242.
August 28, 2017
10:38AM
Rent control could devastate the rental market in Toronto.
April 19, 2017
9:47AM
If selling condos is more lucrative, that’s what property developers will do.
March 14, 2017
3:44PM
Long and uncertain building permit approval timelines make it more difficult to build in cities like Toronto.
November 28, 2016
2:57PM
On average, it takes more than 15 months to get a permit to build a new housing unit in Vancouver.