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| Does Canada have enough housing? This page is a (somewhat incomplete) [[housing supply analysis]] using [https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm Canadian 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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| | See [[/Analysis|analysis]] for details. |
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| |''count''
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| |''definition''
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| !colspan="3"|Supply
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| |st
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| |132060
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| |studio unit
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| |1b
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| |2124485
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| |1-bedroom unit
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| |-
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| |2b
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| |3829965
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| |2-bedroom unit
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| |-
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| |3b
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| |4982900
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| |3-bedroom unit
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| |-
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| |4b
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| |3909525
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| |4-bedroom or more
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| !colspan="3"|Demand
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| |-
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| |s0
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| |6850005
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| |Singles with '''no''' children
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| |-
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| |c0
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| |4286165
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| |Couples with '''no''' children
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| |-
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| |s1
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| |1019940
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| |Single parents with '''1''' child
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| |-
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| |c1+
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| |4290420
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| |Couples with '''1 or more''' children
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| |-
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| |s2+ | |
| |666400
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| |Single parents with '''2 or more''' children
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| |}
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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 houses. Categorized by the number of bedrooms.
| | {{pn|TODO: also write about [[homelessness]] and lack of [[walkability]]}} |
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| <!-- TODO: turn the table into a bar graph --> | | TALK: in what way should the 3 problems be presented together? |
| <!-- XXX: maybe include vacant units as a separate column in the above table, and add them in a lighter-but-similar color for each unit type in the bar graph? i can only do this if there is data on the number of bedrooms in vacant units -->
| | * option 1: elaborate under the same ''housing shortage'' heading, and add more to the ''solutions'' list |
| <!-- TODO: make another table/graph with the same data shown as people and bedrooms.
| | * option 2: append the page with new headings for each problem, each with their own solutions list. issue: solutions overlap |
| - be sure to show the total number of bedrooms and the total population
| | * 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. |
| - categorize people as "single", "in a couple with no children", "in a family of 2 (single parent + child)" "in a family of 3 (parent(s) + child(ren))", "in a family of 4 or more (parent(s) + children)"
| | BTW also mention high housing prices somewhere, as it leads to [[overworking]] |
| - categorize bedrooms as "studio", "in a 1-bedroom unit", "in a 2-bedroom unit", "in a 3-bedroom unit", "in a 4-or-more-bedroom unit", "in a vacant unit (number of bedrooms estimated)"
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| - clarify again that units can be apartments or condos or houses etc.
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| The first thing to notice is there are a lot of single adults {{x|and also a lot of childless couples}}, and not very much single-person housing {{x|and also not enough housing made for childless couples}}. Thus, most singles end up either...
| | ===Solutions=== |
| * Living with roommates. {{x|In some cases, there is no other option but to find roommates on semi-anonymous websites. This comes with safety issues and difficulty trusting whether the roommate will even pay their part of the rent.}}
| | * '''[[Increase housing supply]]''' |
| * Living with parents, even in adulthood. {{x|Some of these single adults may not even be counted "s0" statistic above - some might be counted as "children" in families. The Canadian census defines "child" in a way that has no age cutoff.}}
| | * '''[[subdivide housing|Subdivide ''some'' units into smaller ones]]''' |
| * Hastily moving in with someone they ''just started dating'', before really knowing whether it's right.
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| * Living alone in a bigger, and more expensive place than needed.
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| The last one also takes away housing from families.
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| Solutions:
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| * [[subdividing]] apartments into studios
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| * [[subdividing]] suburban houses into duplexes
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| Nuances:
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| * Obviously this doesn't mean subdividing ALL the homes - just enough to meet the demand.
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| * Subdivision would ''not'' take housing away from families. It would make ''more'' housing available to families. {{p2|(see why)|Many of today's family-sized houses are inhabited by single adults who ''would'' sell their home and move into something smaller (i.e. 1-bedroom condo), but can't find an affordable one (because as the table shows, there simply aren't enough - today's high prices are the market's way of signalling that). By subdividing a few family-sized houses into three 1-bedroom condos, these single adults would move there, freeing up the other family-sized houses for families. Sorry if any of this seems unclear - I'll make a diagram soon.}}
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| <!-- TODO: ==Custom region== : upload the spreadsheet I used for ==All of Canada==, and provide some minimal instructions how to use it for other regions -->
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| ==More considerations==
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| <q>More than 235,000 people in Canada experience homelessness in any given year, and 25,000 to 35,000 people may be experiencing homelessness on any given night.</q> - [https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2021001/article/00002-eng.htm]
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| The census data used earlier, doesn't include ''vacant'' homes. A quick estimate is that 1.3 million homes are vacant, or 8% of the [[housing]] stock. [https://betterdwelling.com/new-data-shows-canada-still-has-1-3-million-vacant-homes-some-improvements-seen/] {{x|This stat would benefit from having a more nuanced breakdown by ''type'' of vacancy, such as investment homes vs cottages etc.}}
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| Also not included: [[office]] buildings, which ''could'' be [[Commercial to residential|repurposed into housing as well]].
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