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Changing Patterns in Canadian Homeownership and Shelter Costs, 2006 Census: Findings
- Highlights
- Introduction
- Housing tenure
- Presence of a mortgage
- Condominium status
- Housing life cycle
- Shelter costs
- Comparing shelter costs to income
- Percentage of households spending 30% or more of their income on shelter up marginally
- Renters represented just over half of households spending 30% or more of their
income on shelter in 2006 - Condominium owners with mortgages saw the largest increase in the proportion
spending 30% or more of their income on shelter - Lone-parent households renting: Decline in the proportion spending 30% or more
of their income on shelter - Half of renters living alone spent 30% or more of their income on shelter
- Immigrants
- Narrowing homeownership rate gap between immigrants and Canadian-born
- Immigrants twice as likely as Canadian-born to live in a condominium
- Increases in shelter costs higher for immigrants than for the Canadian-born population
- Immigrants more likely than Canadian-born to spend 30% or more of their
income on shelter
- Geographical differences
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About the analysis
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This report provides information on homeownership and shelter costs in Canada from the 2006 Census. Topics include homeownership, the presence of a mortgage, condominium status, housing life cycle (or housing career), shelter costs and housing affordability. The report looks at the impact on several key groups: households in lower income groups, persons living alone, lone-parent households, seniors, immigrants and recent immigrants. Geographical differences are considered for provinces, territories and selected census metropolitan areas. The 2006 Census data showed that homeownership rose between 2001 and 2006, continuing an upward trend that began in 1991.
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- News release as reported in The Daily
- Definitions, data sources and methods: Record number 3901
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