Nuancing our understanding of Canada’s housing affordability crisis

Treating the housing crisis as singular supply issue risks missing both the problem and the solution.
Housing Minister Gregor Robertson tours a Caivan modular home construction site in Nepean, Ont., on Sept. 14, 2025.

Canada’s housing affordability crisis is often reduced to a single diagnosis: not enough supply. The implied cure is equally simple: build far more homes. Yet this narrow framing obscures the complexity of what is actually happening across the housing system, and risks pro...

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