Decomposing Canada's Growing Housing Affordability Problem: Do City Differences Matter?
This article examines the role of eight factors that affect the prevalence and incidence of housing affordability problems: geography, demography, migration/immigration/ ethnicity, income recipients, income source, employment and education. It develops bivariate probit models that use the 1991 and 1...
| Published in: | Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 117 - 150 |
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