{"id":170,"date":"2019-12-23T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/2019\/12\/23\/stronger-income-gains-ease-housing-affordability-pressures-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:43:19","slug":"stronger-income-gains-ease-housing-affordability-pressures-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/canadian-analysis\/canadian-housing\/housing-affordability\/stronger-income-gains-ease-housing-affordability-pressures-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger income gains ease housing affordability pressures in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As employers compete for talent, wages are rising a little faster, and that certainly helps to cope with life&#8217;s many expenses. For Canadians looking to buy a home, stronger income gains improve their chances of finding something they can afford.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rds-callout-white\" style=\"border: 1px solid #c4c8cc;\">\n<div class=\"rds-gcw\">\n<div style=\"display:inline-block; vertical-align: top;\" class=\"img mob-w-100\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/housing-dec-download.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rds-inline pad-hlf\" style=\"display:inline-block; vertical-align: top;\">\n<h4 class=\"mar-t\">Read the Full Report<\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"btn tertiary\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/royal-bank-of-canada-2124.docs.contently.com\/v\/housing-trends-and-affordability-december-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-dig-id=\"TNL_007\" data-dig-category=\"TNL Economics\" data-dig-action=\"mid-funnel click\" data-dig-label=\"housing affordability december 2019 CTA PDF dl-238830\">Download<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p>This was the main theme emerging from RBC Economics&#8217; latest <a href=\"https:\/\/royal-bank-of-canada-2124.docs.contently.com\/v\/housing-trends-and-affordability-december-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-dig-id=\"TNL_007\" data-dig-category=\"TNL Economics\" data-dig-action=\"mid-funnel click\" data-dig-label=\"housing affordability december 2019 CTA PDF dl-238830\">Housing Trend and Affordability report<\/a>. It found the growth in income in the past year (averaging more than $180 per month for the average Canadian household) exceeded the rise in home ownership costs (just $6 a month). It meant that for a typical household, the costs of owning an average home bought in the third quarter would have taken up a smaller proportion of income\u20141.6 percentage points to be precise\u2014compared to a year ago. That&#8217;s welcome news for sure, but at 50.7% of income, this share still remained disappointingly high. The situation is most severe in Vancouver, Toronto and Victoria, where the dream of owning a home is next to impossible for many millennials. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s reason to worry these income gains may not keep pace with ownership cost increases in the period ahead. The rebound in Canada&#8217;s housing market since spring has firmed up demand-supply conditions and put home prices on a re-accelerating course\u2014including in Toronto, Victoria and, soon, Vancouver. So this year&#8217;s affordability relief could well be short-lived. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be reason to worry that rising wages provide momentary relief in housing affordability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83,38,46],"tags":[25,11,17,26],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-analysis","category-canadian-housing","category-housing-affordability","tag-british-columbia","tag-economy","tag-housing","tag-ontario"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ 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