Canadians have seen their wealth surge through a simple act—just paying their mortgages. The problem, according to the country’s largest bank, is that one person’s inflated housing wealth is another person’s hurdle to shelter. RBC warns the issue is now so bad, the vast majority of people will never be able to afford to buy […]
Young Canadians may need to come to terms with the fact policymakers are driving ownership further out of reach every year. Numbers crunched by the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) at Statistics Canada (Stat Can) reveals how ownership has changed over the past 50 years. For young adults, homeownership peaked nearly 40 years ago, and […]
Millennials aren’t having children and experts believe high home prices are a big part of the issue. An NBER working paper titled House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby looks at the influence of home prices on births. They found higher home prices […]
