{"id":83,"date":"2026-10-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:00:00","slug":"canadas-affordability-gains-face-slower-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/canadas-affordability-gains-face-slower-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Affordability Gains Face Slower Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/ming-xing-ren\/home-construction-affordability-remotion-videos-bab7\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Recent improvements in housing affordability across Canada may be fleeting, as the pace of new home construction\u2014especially for ownership properties\u2014slows considerably. As a licensed residential and commercial real estate broker, I pay close attention to these shifts: new projections suggest we\u2019ll need between 417,000 and 469,000 new housing starts each year to bring affordability back to pre-pandemic levels by 2036. Yet, the gap between supply and demand remains largely unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>In most major markets, the bulk of new construction is now focused on rental units, while starts for ownership homes have dropped off. While increased rental supply has helped balance conditions for some, this shift doesn\u2019t fully address the needs of future homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>Slower population growth has played a role in recent affordability gains, but with construction slowing even faster than demand, there\u2019s a risk that the market could be caught short when demand inevitably rebounds. For anyone keeping an eye on long-term stability\u2014whether you\u2019re looking to buy, sell, or invest\u2014protecting affordability will require sustained focus on building more ownership housing now, not later.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent improvements in housing affordability across Canada may be fleeting, as the pace of new home construction\u2014especially for ownership properties\u2014slows considerably. As a licensed residential and commercial real estate broker, I pay close attention to these shifts: new projections suggest we\u2019ll need between 417,000 and 469,000 new housing starts each year to bring affordability back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyren.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}