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There are currently more than 66,000 empty houses in Toronto: report

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There are currently more than 66,000 empty houses in Toronto: report

Ainsley Smith

Aug 21 2019, 11:26 am

Daily Hive Toronto

You can blame it on foreign buyers jacking up prices and unaffordability all you want, but Canada’s housing problems extend well beyond that.

Investor speculation and short-term rentals are the main culprits behind high vacancy rates in Canada’s largest cities. Whereas decreasing populations, combined with fluctuations in local economies are also contributing to the increase in the number of vacant homes across the country, according to a new report from Point2Homes.

In 2001, the Canadian government first started collecting data on occupied dwellings and 7.8% of all homes in the country were empty. And this number only continued to increase. In 2006, the vacancy rate had jumped to 8.4% and by 2016 it reached 8.7%.

Here in Toronto, there are now more than 66,000 empty houses, which is just slightly higher than Montreal at 64,000.

Canada’s second-largest city, Vancouver, has the highest share of empty dwellings as its 8.2% rate translates into about 25,000 vacant homes.

Whereas Calgary, Ottawa, and Edmonton, all have more than 20,000 vacant properties, according to the report.

To find these numbers, Point2Homes analyzed demographic and housing data for Canada’s 150 largest cities in the decade between 2006 and 2016 (the most recent available data).

Of Canada’s 10 largest cities, Winnipeg saw the biggest jump in the number of empty homes (42.7%), followed by Montréal (36.3%), and Edmonton (32.5%).

The number of empty dwellings in Vancouver went up 9.6%, while the vacancy rate in Toronto actually decreased byby 4.7% to 66,000.

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-empty-houses-report-2019
 

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Most big cities in the world have bylaws that allow the city to rent unoccupied dwellings to people on welfare or otherwise in need of housing.

That would work in Toronto also.
 

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Which ones? Criminal elements want to know.
 

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Harper put a spoke in the wheels of the rich Asian investors who practically bought their PR cards, especially under the immigrant investor programs.
People were counting on these rich Asians to buy their overpriced houses.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/uni...llionaire-migrants-are-exiting-canada-leaving
If we observe the housing market situations in some other North American cities i.e.) Los Angeles. San Francisco, Mew York.....etc., where there have been no regulations against foreign investors (mainly from Asia and Saudi), house prices tend to maintain their values. Business is business and when governments start to exert influences and impose rules and regulations on business environments in the free market, it tends to generate some extent of negative effects as being demonstrated currently in the Canadian cities as mentioned. It's a complicated scenario since we are caught between a patriotic sentiment of not to be owned by foreign investments as a country and a situation where our house values depreciates significantly (sellers' plight).
 
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