Since renter households are more likely to be in core housing Housing Need need 8 and almost two-thirds of movers moved into a rental dwelling, Of the 1.48 million households living in core housing need in 2001, it is not surprising that the incidence of core housing need was higher 21% had changed their address in the year before the Census, compared among mover households. [...] The labour force status of the primary maintainer at the time of the Census may be different than the status of the maintainer before or immediately after the move. [...] Both owner and renter households that reported moving in the year preceding the 2001 Fourteen per cent of Canadian households reported that they had Census were less likely to find their housing to be affordable and moved at least once during the year prior to the 2001 Census, while suitable in size, but more likely to occupy housing in adequate about 42% had moved in the five years prior to the C [...] For each of these groups, the incidence of core The primary household maintainer refers to the person in the housing need among both owners and renters was higher for mover household most responsible for paying the rent or mortgage, the taxes, households than non-mover households.