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Canada will change how it counts non-permanent residents, the main statistics agency said on Thursday, after an economist said the current methodology may have overlooked about a million foreign students, workers and others.

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[-] RehRomano@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah okay I'm asking because people seem to always point to empty homes as the problem and support that thesis with anecdotal evidence.

The reality is new vacancy taxes in Ontario and BC captured a lot of those empty homes and there's simply nowhere near the scale of empty homes to make any reasonable dent in the housing crisis, even if we converted every single one to occupied.

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