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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]]. |
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| ==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. |
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| {|class="wikitable"
| | See [[/Analysis|analysis]] for details. |
| !colspan="2"|Supply
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| |studio
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| |132060
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| |1-bedroom
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| |2124485
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| |2-bedroom
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| |3829965
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| |3-bedroom
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| |4982900
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| |4-bedroom or more
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| |3909525
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| !colspan="2"|Demand
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| |Singles with '''no''' children
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| |6850005
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| |Couples with '''no''' children
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| |4286165
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| |Single parents with '''1''' child
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| |1019940
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| |Couples with '''1 or more''' children
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| |4290420
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| |Single parents with '''2 or more''' children
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| |666400 | |
| |}
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| <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>
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| 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]]}} |
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| <!-- 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.
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| The last one also takes away housing from families.
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| Solutions: | | ===Solutions=== |
| * subdividing apartments into studios | | * '''[[Increase housing supply]]''' |
| * subdividing suburban houses into duplexes
| | * '''[[subdivide housing|Subdivide ''some'' units into smaller ones]]''' |
| Nuances:
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| * obviously this doesn't mean subdividing ALL the homes - just enough to meet the demand for housing for all the childless people.
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| * 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. | |
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| <!-- TODO: ==Custom region== : provide instructions how to use the spreadsheet in regional other data. discuss future plans for making this easier -->
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