{"id":701,"date":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","slug":"canada-still-isnt-building-enough-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/25\/canada-still-isnt-building-enough-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Still Isn\u2019t Building Enough 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\/canadian-housing-crisis-remotion-videos-5c22\" 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>Experts said Canada had taken small steps forward, with affordability improving in key markets, yet overall progress still fell short of solving supply challenges.<br \/>\nCanada has been building ~250K homes yearly, but restoring affordability and closing the backlog required ~400K to 470K new homes each year.<br \/>\nOver the past decade, population growth outpaced housing production, leaving a deficit that could not be erased quickly even if construction activity accelerated.<br \/>\nPublic frustration stayed high: ~80% of Canadians said housing was not functioning properly, and ~75% felt too few homes were being built.<br \/>\nLooking ahead, pent-up demand could emerge when confidence improves, and housing was expected to remain a major political issue across Canada for voters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts said Canada had taken small steps forward, with affordability improving in key markets, yet overall progress still fell short of solving supply challenges. Canada has been building ~250K homes yearly, but restoring affordability and closing the backlog required ~400K to 470K new homes each year. Over the past decade, population growth outpaced housing production, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","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\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}