Housing, housing, housing. It’s constantly in the news, and with good reason – finding a place to live has become an all-consuming worry for many Canadians.
Pundits and mainstream media columnists have created a veritable cottage industry out of concocting increasingly niche solutions for the housing crisis. Everything from deploying legions of prefabricated houses to putting tiny homes all over the place has been heralded as the next great innovation in the epic struggle for affordable housing.
When it comes to pinpointing the cause of housing unaffordability, the commentators fall silent, and the so-called housing activists step up to the plate. Their villains are myriad: Baby Boomers, short-term vacation rental owners, and middle-class homeowners who don’t want their leafy single-family neighbourhoods peppered with apartment buildings.
But here’s the problem. All of this is a distraction from the fundamental cause of the housing crisis (high immigration-driven population growth) and the only real and lasting solution (stopping high immigration-driven population growth). This explanation is boring compared to the grand hero-and-villain narratives dreamt up by the talking heads and the housing activists, but it’s true.
The following graphs illustrate that population growth has outpaced housing growth for the last fifty years – a trend which has spiked dramatically since Justin Trudeau’s election in 2015:
The orange line is housing completions from 1980-2022, and the blue line is population growth. See the problem? (Source)
Let’s zoom out further. The yellow bars are housing completions from 1972-2022, and the blue bars are population growth. (Source)
Let’s take a look at Ontario. The blue line is housing starts, and that skyrocketing yellow line is population growth! (Source)
The same situation is playing out in Alberta. Last year, 65% of Alberta’s population growth was from immigration. (Source)
Let’s illustrate this another way. Here’s how much Canada’s house prices have diverged from other countries in the G7… (Source)
…And here’s how much Canada’s population growth has diverged from other countries in the G7. See the pattern? (Source)
There you have it, folks. Despite the endless discussion around housing, we are missing the forest for the trees. Runaway population growth is driving the housing crisis. In 2023, 97.6% of Canada’s population growth was from immigration. The only way to make housing affordable again is to cut immigration levels.
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If you’ve ever taken a data science class, you’d know that correlation does not equal causation. Please learn about what that means instead of grabbing data from statcan and pretending like you’ve definitively reached a conclusion.
Gives a stern lecture on “correlation does not equal causation.”
Doesn’t realize the whole point of the graphs is that they don’t show any evidence of correlation.
There is no mathematical basis for any of the assertions you are making. Your ‘analysis’ is comparable to Terrance Howard’s arithmetic abilities, and should have as much weight as 1 x 1 = 2.
Figures don’t lie, but liars sure do figure.
All levels of government are responsible for the high cost of housing in Canada. The federal government, for their significantly increased levels of immigration on the demand side and provincial and local governments for constraints on the supply side. A mere 11% of the land base in Canada is privately owned with the majority of that in agriculture and forestry (mostly in the East). In BC where the lower mainland is hemmed in by an Agriculture Land Reserve and geography more suited to ships and Mountain Goats, less than one percent of the province is privately owned and available for housing and all other municipal use. The urban sprawl that followed WW2 and boomers were raised (and mostly still housed) has been the nemesis of planners and academics for generations that followed, ensuring highly regulated, zoned, and coded plans and permits continually resulting in higher costs. Taking the lower mainland and Toronto out of the equation and housing costs are significantly lower. In Alberta’s cities, where private and easily developable land surrounds them, the “planner-dreaded” urban sprawl continues with housing costs 1/3 that of the lower mainland.
Scientifically or mathematically, the point that “correlation doesn’t mean causation” may be correct, but if you take a step back and apply “common sense” there is something behind the curves.
Canada is not a real sovereign democratic country. It is just an economic zone acting as an extension of USA and China.
First they closed down our factories, outsourced as much as they could overseas, then they chose to replace Canadians with brown 3rd world cheap labor.
Everything they do is to hurt ordinary White Canadians while enriching the 1%, bankers and Jews.
Canadian government is using mass immigration to depreciate wages of the young White working class while propping up their ponzi scheme pension plan and ponzi scheme housing market with unlimited immigration at the expense of most Canadians other than useless unemployed boomers.
The end result is unaffordable housing, jobs that don’t pay a living wage and a Canadian society that is more divided than ever because of hostile ethnic groups that form their own enclaves (i.e; Brampton aka brown town)
It’s a simple supply and demand issue: Skyrocket the demand for housing via immigration while not building enough new homes leads to increasing the value of the commodity in question which is more expensive housing, land and rent.
Canadian investors and boomers and bankers win, but anyone who did not buy into the market yet is seeing their quality of life drop year after year.
Canada’s GDP per capita is dropping and the quality of life is getting worse.
In about 20 years, White people will be a minority throughout Canada and this country will be irreversibly changed forever.
Before the end of the century, Whites will be collectively outnumbered by browns, blacks and asians who will become the new majority.
Voted for it? Votes don’t matter. The globalist elite who are overwhelmingly Jewish have decided your country will be a cheap economic zone and that requires a slow genocide of White people.