Tag: Vacant Home Epidemic

Canada’s Vacant Real Estate Is Getting The Viral Treatment On Social Media

May 30, 2022

France has its catacombs, America has abandoned malls, and Canada has its vacant homes — all 1.3 million of them, according to the OECD. For decades, urban explorers have been touring abandoned buildings and sites. The activity of questionable legality has been a niche subculture for some time. However, the rise of TikTok (and YouTube […]

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The World Has Millions of Vacant Homes, and 1.3 Million Are In Canada: OECD

October 22, 2021

The whole world is undergoing a housing shortage, but vacant homes are barely budging. The OECD‘s latest data drop shows 42 million of its 426 million homes are vacant. Yes, roughly one in ten homes in advanced economies are empty. There are literally years of housing supply being used as an alternative to gold. Rather […]