{"id":17158,"date":"2022-01-24T22:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=17158"},"modified":"2022-01-24T22:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:34:42","slug":"study-estimates-over-1340000-empty-homes-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=17158","title":{"rendered":"Study estimates over 1,340,000 empty homes in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study released this week found that in Canada in 2020, there were up to 1,340,364 vacant homes, comprising 8.7% of all homes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadianrealestatemagazine.ca\/news\/study-estimates-over-1340000-empty-homes-in-canada-334880.aspx\">Study estimates over 1,340,000 empty homes in Canada<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Well that does kinda explain why no one wants to build houses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The figures are confounding when considered against the fact that many analysts cite low supply as one of the major issues in the real estate market today and a reason why so many are struggling to buy homes for reasonable prices. The obvious question is, where are all these vacant homes, and why are they going unused?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the articles doesn&#8217;t have an answer.\u00a0 It mention there&#8217;s 3x (or 4x?) empty houses than homeless poepel here.\u00a0 but giving people things is a moral hazard, so whatayagonnadoo?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study released this week found that in Canada in 2020, there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,18,1148,620,140],"class_list":["post-17158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-economics","tag-homelessness","tag-housing","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}