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Comparing units to per capita ignores that Calgary builds more SFH which have probably double the number of residents as an apartment in...

Q1 2024: On a per capita basis Calgary and Halifax are tops. Halifax even beating out Ott/Gat! City SFH semi row apartment total...

You really see the lag in apartments. What's going on there? IIRC there was more high rise development in this city during the oil crash...

March housing starts are out. Toronto and Vancouver leading the pack as usual, with Calgary a solid third as usual. Montreal still...

US metro areas are defined entirely by their commuter sheds. CMA (and the US equivalent) CBSA aren't just based on vibes or whatever...

The US Census Bureau definitely defines metro areas at much larger scales than Statistics Canada. Case in point: metro Chicago is 28000...

the CMA could be hitting 2 million a lot sooner than expected, we must be pushing 1.7 by now?

Something I forgot to mention earlier regarding Calgary’s population growth, I was talking to my brother-in-law, who works at one of the...

Not only that but Alberta is also one of the fastest growing province GDP-wise. And how pace of housing starts, while not keeping up...

A net gain of 55,000 people inter-provincially is massive. I guess the government campaign of “cheap housing is calling” is working!

I think a decent amount of international immigrants live with friends or relatives when they arrive. Not sure what the percentage is...

Developers HAVE ramped up, but even that industry has its limits...

That would be my guess too. I think Calgary will be around 50% in Edmonton around 35%, with 15% for the rest of the province. It’s...

Alberta's population surges by record-setting 202,000 people, CBC...

Canada also just crossed 41,000,000 people on the Population Clock. We hit 40,000,000 on June 23, 2023