{"id":212,"date":"2026-10-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:00:00","slug":"canadas-rental-affordability-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/01\/canadas-rental-affordability-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Rental Affordability Gap"},"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\/joeann-chabrol\/canada-rent-relief-remotion-videos-51fc\" 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>Canada\u2019s avg. rent fell \u2193~2% yearly to $2.1K, yet households still spent ~28% of income on housing, showing lower prices alone didn&#039;t restore affordability.<br \/>\nVancouver rents fell \u2193~6% and Toronto \u2193~5%, yet renters there spent less income on housing than the national norm because household earnings remained stronger.<br \/>\nThe bigger pressure point showed up in several secondary markets, where incomes fell \u2193~6% to \u2193~22% and rent burdens stayed above the national avg.<br \/>\nRisk signals also intensified: national debt collections rose \u2191~18% yearly, showing financial strain persisted for renters across Canada even while asking rents moved lower.<br \/>\nShared living helped many households keep pace, and experts said affordability assessments now need rent, income, credit, employment, and other financial signals together.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s avg. rent fell \u2193~2% yearly to $2.1K, yet households still spent ~28% of income on housing, showing lower prices alone didn&#039;t restore affordability. Vancouver rents fell \u2193~6% and Toronto \u2193~5%, yet renters there spent less income on housing than the national norm because household earnings remained stronger. The bigger pressure point showed up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}