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Jon Love: The housing crisis has a simple solution — and it doesn't involve yet another government program

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Housing in Canada is in crisis because demand has simply outpaced the supply of new homes.

Peak housing starts occurred in 1976 , when 273,000 new homes were delivered — to a population of some 23.5 million people.

Canada has the fewest homes per capita in the G7 , 25th in the Organization of Economic Co-operation Development ( OECD ).

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