The adequacy, suitability, and affordability of Canadian housing : Série sur le logement selon les données du recensement de 2001. Numéro 3 révisé, Qualité, taille et abordabilité du logement canadien

Given the large income differences between owners and Findings renters–an average household income of $71,946 for owners and $38,797 for renters–the greater capacity of owners to pay for Households in Acceptable Housing acceptable housing is not surprising.6 While more than one in four renter households (28.3%) were in core housing need, the After falling between 1991 and 1996, the percentage of C [...] Of the 10.8 million households in 2001 whose housing conditions are Adequacy, Suitability and Affordability examined in this Highlight (see Table 1), seven out of ten (69.9%) The degree to which Canadian housing meets each of the lived in acceptable housing, that is, in dwellings that met all three standards underlying the definition of acceptable housing varies of the adequacy, suitability, and a [...] In 1991, 1996, and access acceptable housing (16.3%) and those whose incomes were 2001, the percentage of households paying 30% or more of their not sufficient (13.7%) and were therefore in core housing need.5 before-tax incomes on shelter was roughly three times higher than the Thus, just over half of households not living in acceptable housing percentages living in housing that was not suitable [...] Owner and renter households showed very similar tendencies: standard,16.9% of households were living below the affordability standard, over 90% of both groups lived in adequate housing with the majority 5.3% below the adequacy standard, and 4.0% below the suitability of the remaining households having sufficient income to access standard. [...] Outside the Northwest in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, particularly in the Territories and Nunavut, the proportion of households in latter, where just over half of households lived in such housing.