The gains are not evenly spread across Canadians, the agency noted, meaning they reflect the financial success of few households.
  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    8•5 months ago

    65% of the Canadian population are homeowners

    This is StatCan’s explanation of the number you’re referring to: .

    While people somewhat loosely use that number for home owners I believe it a highly inaccurate phrasing of the statistic. The statistic is owner-occupied homes.

    It’s always the homeowner boogeyman when in reality the problem comes from the government spending money wherever and not applying strict foreign home purchasing laws that keep increasing home prices.

    And they’re the people who keep advocating for these governments. For the record I don’t think you can find me ever saying that homeowners or even landlords are bad people just because of those characteristic, however it’s clear our interests do not align.

    pay their fair share of taxes

    The fair portion is what’s up for dispute right now.

    • @[email protected]
      1•5 months ago

      Am I reading this right in that it’s a percentage of homes (dwellings) occupied by the owner compared to the percentage of people that own their home? Like if you have a family of 4 in a house and they rent out a (legal) basement suite to two individual renters, is that counted as one owner-occupied dwelling out of two dwellings on the property; (50% homeowner occupied or 100% homeowner occupied. Compared again to say having 6 people, of which one or two(is that family of 4 a couple or single parent) are homeowners.

    • @[email protected]
      1•5 months ago

      The “total number of owners” link goes here. I’m not really sure how to read what come up, though. I actually wonder if the site was bugging out.

      Here’s the actual exchange. Not to give them traffic, but maybe like me you want to click through to something else.

      According to other people in that thread, it goes down to 30% or 40% if you don’t include people who just live together with a homeowner. Honestly that doesn’t change the story much for the purpose of OP, IMO.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        30% or 40% if you don’t include people who just live together with a homeowner. Honestly that doesn’t change the story much for the purpose of OP

        I don’t think there’s many scenarios where 66.5% to 30-40% isn’t a substantial difference.

        • @[email protected]
          1•5 months ago

          Sure there is. Off the top of my head: how much you were speeding as it effects likelihood of being pulled over, salt content in your drinking water, and median daily percentage of necessary daily calories over the course of a year.

          In this case, that’s a substantial but not overwhelming share of the population with 90% of the wealth either way. To me personally, that seems the same. You can have a different impression and not be wrong, I guess.