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RSS FeedsHow much do Canadians spend on rent? Ontario `hit harder than anywhere else,´ says new housing tool
(The Star Television)

 
 

17 september 2019 18:11:32

 
How much do Canadians spend on rent? Ontario `hit harder than anywhere else,´ says new housing tool
(The Star Television)
 


Canada’s federal election looms and a new rental housing tool should, its creators hope, make it easier for some voters to decide how they can make a difference at the polls. The Canadian Rental Housing Index has broken down how much of their overall income Canadians are spending on rent across all 338 federal ridings, and those findings, along with an interactive map, are scheduled to be released Tuesday.Of the top 20 ridings with the highest proportion of renters spending 50 per cent or more of their income on housing, 11 are in Ontario, the index shows. Six are in British Columbia and the remaining three are in Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec.“Ontario now has the dubious honour of being hit harder than anywhere else in the country,” Marlene Coffey, chief executive officer of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association, said in a release. The findings, said Coffey, “clearly demonstrate” that Canada’s political leaders have failed to find the solutions needed to fix a worsening crisis.The Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association was part of a coalition of national housing providers who contributed to the report, including the BC Non-Profit Housing Association (co-founders of the index), the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association and the Aboriginal Housing Management Association. The data was sourced from Statistics Canada and pulled from the results of the 2016 long-form census. The 2018 Canadian Rental Housing Index also used the 2016 census information, but this new report was mapped out with the federal election in mind, the release said. Coffey said the goal was to create a tool that both government and voters could use to understand what reality renters are facing in each of the country’s federal electoral ridings.“Affordability is not a big-city problem anymore,” Coffey told the Star. It is important that voters are informed when it comes to housing pressures facing Canadian renters, she said. “A ...


 
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