{"id":36121,"date":"2022-09-05T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=36121"},"modified":"2022-09-05T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:00:57","slug":"breaking-down-the-big-new-batch-of-housing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2022\/09\/05\/breaking-down-the-big-new-batch-of-housing-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the Big New Batch of Housing Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/spacingvancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/features\/indepth_feature-VAN.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\"><\/p>\n<p>How widespread are evictions? How bad are waitlists? And who\u2019s struggling with housing the most?<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada\u2019s latest survey goes into detail about what Canadians are experiencing when it comes to their homes.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an \u201cobsession\u201d with home prices as a marker of the housing crisis, says Andy Yan, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University.<\/p>\n<p>But he says this survey gives us a better picture of what people are experiencing when it comes to their housing situations.<\/p>\n<p>With B.C.\u2019s municipal elections on the horizon, there are lots of findings for candidates to take note of.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside \" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/aside\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<section id=\"sidebar_ab\" class=\"messaging-block messaging-block--ask\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/messaging-block--ask\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\"><\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Called the Canadian Housing Survey, Statistics Canada usually conducts it every two years. But because of the pandemic, the agency did the latest in 2021 rather than 2020. The results of that survey (which only cover provinces and not territories) were just released in July.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the findings, with a focus on B.C.<\/p>\n<p><b>BC has the highest share of \u2018forced moves\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>About 2.1 percent of households in all provinces were subject to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/t1\/tbl1\/en\/tv.action?pid=4610006101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced move<\/a>\u201d in the five years leading up to 2021. This could be triggered by a landlord, bank, or the government, says the survey.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/pub\/11-627-m\/11-627-m2022046-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adds<\/a>&nbsp;that Indigenous people are twice as likely to be evicted compared to non-Indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>In B.C., the percentage is the highest of all provinces; 3.6 percent of households were forced to move, representing 75,400 households.<\/p>\n<p>One reason behind this is that it\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/b-c-leads-country-in-evictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">easier<\/a> for landlords in B.C. to evict tenants. Unlike other provinces, B.C. landlords don\u2019t need to file eviction notices to a governing agency before notifying the tenant. They can give them straight to the tenant, who has the onus of disputing the eviction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Percentage of households forced to move in the past five years\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-FSfdn\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/FSfdn\/3\/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"355\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var a in e.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r<t.length;r++){if(t[r].contentWindow===e.source)t[r].style.height=e.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][a]+\"px\"}}}))}();\n<\/script>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Longer waitlists for social and affordable housing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In B.C., about 26,800 households \u2014 1.3 per cent of all households in the province \u2014 in 2021 were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/t1\/tbl1\/en\/tv.action?pid=4610005801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waitlisted<\/a>&nbsp;for social and affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>But 52 per cent of those households waiting have been doing so for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>This is worse than 2018, according to the survey that year, during which 46 per cent of households were on waitlists for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>(The number of waitlisted households appears to have gone up since the survey was conducted. BC Housing told The Tyee earlier this year that it had 31,200 applicants on its waitlist.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Owners are happier with their homes than renters<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The survey asked households how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/t1\/tbl1\/en\/tv.action?pid=4610006001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">satisfied<\/a>&nbsp;they are in their homes. To no surprise, owners everywhere are more satisfied than renters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwnership has a pre-filtering process,\u201d said Yan. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to buy something you\u2019re unhappy with\u2026 unless you\u2019re on the way to something bigger. Renters don\u2019t necessarily have that choice, not in a place like B.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>B.C.\u2019s rental vacancy rate is 1.4 per cent, considered unhealthy.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also breaks satisfaction down by housing type.<\/p>\n<p>In B.C., households are satisfied with detached houses most of all, but this doesn\u2019t mean they hate density. The housing type with the most dissatisfied households are low-rises of less than five storeys\u2014this could be because they\u2019re renting old properties rather than because of a hate for low-rises. A huge chunk of the province\u2019s rental stock are low-rises built between the 1960s and \u201980s.<\/p>\n<p><b>Renters say their \u2019hood is good<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yan noticed an interesting result from the survey, which also looked at neighbourhood satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are not happy in rental units, but they\u2019re very happy in renter neighbourhoods,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He interprets this as meaning that many rental neighbourhoods are rich in amenities like shops and services, but are lacking adequate housing options.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fewer households in \u2018core housing need\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada defines \u201ccore housing need\u201d as households with housing that meet one of the following conditions: unaffordable (housing costs exceed 30 percent of income), unsuitable (not enough room for inhabitants) or inadequate (poor condition) housing.<\/p>\n<p>In B.C., the percentage of households in core housing need&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/t1\/tbl1\/en\/tv.action?pid=4610006501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fell<\/a>&nbsp;from 14.8 in 2018 to 12.5 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Yan says this positive outlook could be a reflection of households in dire straits not filling out the survey or the fact that temporary pandemic policies introduced by the provincial NDP government helped. These policies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.bc.ca\/releases\/2020MAH0048-000561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">halted<\/a>&nbsp;evictions, rent increases and gave rent supplements.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the improvement since 2018, renters have more housing problems than homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 27 percent of renter households were in core housing need, over three times more than owners.<\/p>\n<p><b>Groups struggling with \u2018core housing\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 2021 survey provides a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/t1\/tbl1\/en\/tv.action?pid=4610006801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demographic breakdown<\/a>&nbsp;across Canadian provinces of households in core housing need.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the percentage of the total population in core housing need (7.2), there are higher percentages of racialized people (9.2) and First Nations people living off reserve, M\u00e9tis, and Inuit (13.1). Percentages are more dire within some groups.<\/p>\n<p>Among people identifying as Korean, 22 percent are in core housing need. This is extra troubling when compared with 2018 because they are the only group that did not show improvement. People that identify as Arab come next, with 16.2 percent in core housing need.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Percentage of people in core housing need by ethnicity, 2021\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-j6y0Y\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/j6y0Y\/2\/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"430\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var a in e.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r<t.length;r++){if(t[r].contentWindow===e.source)t[r].style.height=e.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][a]+\"px\"}}}))}();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aside from racialized groups, the survey results also highlighted the plight of seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one percent of seniors living alone are in core housing need. But if they live with others, this drops to 3.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><b>Back to the toolbox<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With a growing population of renters and increasing rental precariousness, Yan says there is a lot in the municipal toolkit for candidates to campaign on this election season.<\/p>\n<p>Some solutions are: using zoning to mandate rentals; cracking down on short-term rentals like Airbnb; creating policy around family-sized rentals; allowing displaced renters to return to new buildings at below-market rates; and introducing penalties for landlords with vacant units. Cities in Metro Vancouver have already begun implementing a few of these.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Yan, the data cruncher, wants more housing data to be collected, particularly around rented condos and suites in houses.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, though, is the pushback from those profiting from the current status quo of commodified housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a level of choice in our political economy where the other side says: please don\u2019t do any of this, let us keep doing our business,\u201d says Yan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Christopher Cheung&nbsp;is a reporter at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/\">The Tyee<\/a>, where this story originally appeared on Aug. 19, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How widespread are evictions? How bad are waitlists? And who\u2019s struggling with housing the most? Statistics Canada\u2019s latest survey goes into detail about what Canadians are experiencing when it comes to their homes. 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