Housing/Canada: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:50, 21 October 2022

Does Canada have enough housing? Let's do a housing supply analysis using census data.

All of Canada

Supply
studio	132060
1-bedroom	2124485
2-bedroom	3829965
3-bedroom	4982900
4-bedroom or more	3909525
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

Data source: Canadian Census 2021 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

The Supply includes all types of housing - including apartments, condos, townhouses and single-detached houses. Categorized by the number of bedrooms.

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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.
+<!-- DRAFT:
+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:
+* 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
+* Having to live with parents, even in adulthood
+* Pressure to hastily enter romantic relationships due to the need for housing
+* Living alone in a place bigger and more expensive than one would otherwise need.
+The last one also takes away housing from families.
+Solutions:
+* subdividing apartments into studios
+* subdividing suburban houses into duplexes
+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 -->