The percentage of singles and couples who live in homes that have a minimum of three bedrooms increased to 29 per cent in Canada in 2021, according to an analysis by The Globe and Mail of census numbers for that year. That compares with 26 per cent in 2006, according to the corresponding census.
“It does speak to the underuse of housing. The question is what do you do about it and what can you do about it,” said Aled ab Iorwerth, deputy chief economist with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., the federal housing agency. St. John’s and Lethbridge, Alta., were the highest at 37 per cent. About a dozen metropolitan areas had more than one-third, including Peterborough, Thunder Bay, Kingston and St. Catharines-Niagara in Ontario; Red Deer, Alta.; and Saguenay, Que.
“It appears to be too many rooms for too few people,” said Mathieu Laberge, who helped implement the country’s federal program to improve housing and is now an adviser with KPMG consultancy. Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie says one issue contributing to a housing crisis in her city is that aging people are, in effect, “overhoused” but are unable to find another place that meets their needs.
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