{"id":6471,"date":"2026-10-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/canada-needs-more-homes-to-sustain-affordability-your-go-to-realtor-for-edmonton-area-301\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:00:00","slug":"canada-needs-more-homes-to-sustain-affordability-your-go-to-realtor-for-edmonton-area-301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/canada-needs-more-homes-to-sustain-affordability-your-go-to-realtor-for-edmonton-area-301\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Needs More Homes to Sustain Affordability | Your Go To Realtor for Edmonton &amp; Area!"},"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\/john-braconnier\/home-construction-affordability-04b5\" 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>Lately, we\u2019ve seen some improvement in housing affordability across Canada, but it\u2019s clear these gains are on shaky ground. With new home construction slowing\u2014especially for ownership homes\u2014it\u2019s becoming a real concern that supply won\u2019t keep up with what Canadians will need in the years ahead. Recent estimates show we\u2019ll need between 417,000 and 469,000 new homes built every year to get back to the pre-pandemic level of affordability by 2036, and the gap isn\u2019t really closing. Most of the new builds in major cities are rentals, while ownership-focused construction has dropped off, even as those rentals help balance things out a bit. Although slower population growth has given affordability a boost, homebuilding has slowed even more, which means we could still face a shortage once demand picks up again. As someone who\u2019s committed to guiding you through every step of the buying or selling process, I keep a close eye on these trends\u2014because protecting affordability now is essential for helping you reach your real estate goals down the road.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, we\u2019ve seen some improvement in housing affordability across Canada, but it\u2019s clear these gains are on shaky ground. With new home construction slowing\u2014especially for ownership homes\u2014it\u2019s becoming a real concern that supply won\u2019t keep up with what Canadians will need in the years ahead. Recent estimates show we\u2019ll need between 417,000 and 469,000 new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":6472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbraconnier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}