Mortgage debt soars while starter homes get out of reach for many Canadians (globalnews.ca)

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While incomes in Canada have risen 76 per cent since 2004, the price of a new home at the lower end of the market has risen by 265 per cent, the analysis said.

“Brand-new family-sized starter homes are over twice as expensive relative to income as they were 20 years ago. And unless governments get serious about bringing down the cost of homebuilding, it will take another 20 years to fix,” economist Mike Moffat said in the report.

The report added that even if home prices stopped rising entirely, it would take 25 years for the price-to-income ratio to reach the levels they were at in 2004.

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

Don't worry! The new Build Canada Homes has 7,000 homes planned for this year, so it's under control. /s

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

TBF it's early days, they still haven't fully legislated it in.

Housing prices are coming down in most places now, but more due to paused immigration than anything else, as far as I can tell.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

We need something like 3.5 million homes to get back to pre-2019 prices. They're gonna have to step up. I haven't heard a plan from Carney and Co to make that happen.

[-] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The goal according to Carney and Gregor Robinson is affordable homes, not to make homes affordable. A subtle bullshitting that coincidentally benefits his largest corporate holding.