Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

[Bytor]

Why London is Filled with Empty Homes
https://www.alux.com/london-empty-homes/

A bit of a long read but worth it. I’m sure it’s relevant to Canada as well.

What we do know is that most articles in Canadian news media about  how many empty housing units drastically misinterpret the data from StatCan.

For example, most students just leave their address of record at their parent's place and the houses or apartments they are living in are not given by anybody as the address of record. As a result student areas often look like half the residences are empty, according to StatCan.

Same kind of thing goes for cottages.

Even when you point out that problem with the data, the same people still want to claim there's no housing crisis.