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by jeffalyanak 541 days ago
Most expensive homes yes, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of livable homes and apartments that are _empty_ at any given time. Canada has a lot of vacant houses.
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Canada has one of the lowest home vacancy rates among the OECD countries and currently at the lowest rate it's been in 40 years:

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/data/datasets/affor...

That paper doesn't disprove my point. It indicates ~7% home vacancy, which means the total number of vacant homes is higher than the number of people without homes.