{"id":60,"date":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","slug":"canada-needs-twice-the-projected-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/canada-needs-twice-the-projected-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Needs Twice the Projected Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/ravi-chadha\/cmhc-canada-housing-remotion-videos-5064\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>The national housing agency projected Canada needs 417K-469K new homes yearly through 2036 to restore pre-pandemic affordability, far above current construction expectations.<br \/>\nCanada still faces a long-term housing supply gap of 187K-238K homes per year over the next decade, based on current projections nationally.<br \/>\nConstruction expected to slow faster than demand, leaving Canada short of needed homes and making the current downturn a key risk to affordability goals.<br \/>\nThe scale of the shortage means construction would need to rise dramatically from current projections, with much of today&#039;s building tied to projects already underway.<br \/>\nNationally, Canada needs roughly twice as much housing construction as currently projected to improve affordability over the next decade under the current outlook.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national housing agency projected Canada needs 417K-469K new homes yearly through 2036 to restore pre-pandemic affordability, far above current construction expectations. Canada still faces a long-term housing supply gap of 187K-238K homes per year over the next decade, based on current projections nationally. Construction expected to slow faster than demand, leaving Canada short of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}