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Housing shortage

Single adults outnumber single-person homes by more than 3 to 1. This leads to some people being stuck living with relatives or roommates they don't get along with, or even ex-partners. Of the single people who can afford to live alone, it's common to live alone in a multi-bedroom home; this leads to a shortage of housing for families as well.

See analysis for details.

TODO: also write about homelessness and lack of walkability

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-Does Canada have enough housing? Let's do a [[housing supply analysis]] using census data.
+==Housing shortage==
+Canada has a [[housing shortage]].
-==All of Canada==
+Single adults [[shortage of single-person homes|outnumber single-person homes]] by more than 3 to 1. This leads to some people being stuck living with relatives or roommates they don't get along with, or even ex-partners. Of the single people who ''can'' afford to live alone, it's common to live alone in a multi-bedroom home; this leads to a shortage of housing for families as well.
-{|class="wikitable"
+See [[/Analysis|analysis]] for details.
-!colspan="2"|Supply
-|-
-|studio
-|132060
-|-
-|1-bedroom
-|2124485
-|-
-|2-bedroom
-|3829965
-|-
-|3-bedroom
-|4982900
-|-
-|4-bedroom or more
-|3909525
-|-
-!colspan="2"|Demand
-|-
-|Singles with '''no''' children
-|6850005
-|-
-|Couples with '''no''' children
-|4286165
-|-
-|Single parents with '''1''' child
-|1019940
-|-
-|Couples with '''1 or more''' children
-|4290420
-|-
-|Single parents with '''2 or more''' children
-|666400
-|}
-<small>Data source: <cite>Canadian Census 2021</cite> https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1&HEADERlist=0&DGUIDlist=2021A000011124&SearchText=Canada<!-- TODO: upload the spreadsheet with the formulas that calculated these numbers --></small>
-The '''Supply''' includes all types of housing - including apartments, condos, townhouses and single-detached houses. Categorized by the number of bedrooms.
+{{pn|TODO: also write about [[homelessness]] and lack of [[walkability]]}}
+<!--
-<!-- DRAFT:
+TALK: in what way should the 3 problems be presented together?
-The first thing to notice is there are a lot of single people {{x|and couples with no kids}}, and not very much single-person housing {{x|and not much 'childless couple'-sized housing either}}. This leads to "forever compromising" in a few ways:
+* option 1: elaborate under the same ''housing shortage'' heading, and add more to the ''solutions'' list
-* Having to live with roommates - in many cases, no other option but to meet roommates as strangers on Craigslist, which may lead to trust problems or rent defaulting where one person has to bare the burden
+* option 2: append the page with new headings for each problem, each with their own solutions list. issue: solutions overlap
-* Having to live with parents, even in adulthood
+* option 3: just have 2 main headings: ''problems'' and ''solutions''; put the problems as subheadings under ''problems''; let the ''solutions'' list address all the problems at once.
-* Pressure to hastily enter romantic relationships due to the need for housing
+BTW also mention high housing prices somewhere, as it leads to [[overworking]]
-* Living alone in a place bigger and more expensive than one would otherwise need.
+-->
-The last one also takes away housing from families.
-Solutions:
+===Solutions===
-* subdividing apartments into studios
+* '''[[Increase housing supply]]'''
-* subdividing suburban houses into duplexes
+* '''[[subdivide housing|Subdivide ''some'' units into smaller ones]]'''
-Nuances:
-* obviously this doesn't mean subdividing ALL the homes - just enough to meet the demand for housing for all the childless people.
-* let's be clear - this wouldn't take housing away from families. It would make more housing available to families. Maybe I need to draw some sort of diagram so people can understand why.
--->
-<!-- TODO: ==Custom region== : provide instructions how to use the spreadsheet in regional other data. discuss future plans for making this easier -->