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Housing
Prices, rents, vacancy, supply. The data behind the dominant Canadian political story of the decade.
Housing, by the numbers
Live supply and price indicators, straight from Statistics Canada.
Snapshot as of 18 July 2026. Each number links to its Statistics Canada source table.
Ontario's 1.5M-homes promise meets reality
Three years into the 2031 target, Ontario has delivered 15.3 % of the homes against 33 % of the timeline. Catching up to 1.5 M would now require 211,792 starts a year — 3.2 × the 2025 rate.
Asking rents fell. The rent people pay went up.
Statistics Canada says asking rents fell over the past year. It also says rents rose almost four per cent. Both are correct. One number prices the apartment you would move into, the other the one you already live in, and the difference explains most of the confusion.
Toronto rates its apartments two ways — and they almost never agree
500 Dawes Road is the only building both of Toronto's parallel rating systems flag as one of the worst — and that agreement is unusual enough it might be why Mayor Chow went there.