Assisting Owners, Neglecting Renters
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For some Canadians, the term “housing policy” evokes images of public housing, government subsidies for low-income households, and programs aimed at helping Canada’s unhoused individuals and families. It is easy, though inaccurate, to view housing policy as having this limited scope. After all, 95 percent of Canadian households obtain their housing from the private market. Two-thirds of all households own the house in which they live. About one-third of all renters at any time are on their way to buying a house and are merely passing through the rental market. Only 5 percent of Canada’s households live in non-market social housing (defined here as including government-owned public housing, non-profit housing, and non-profit housing cooperatives) – the smallest social housing sector of any Western nation except for the United States.
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