Canadian Housing Survey – Cycle 4 Content Consultation - Submission to Statistics Canada and the Canadian

Capture the causes of housing loss due to unaffordability Further, we recommend that where a household indicates that they moved due to unaffordable housing costs, the CHS should ask follow-up questions about the cause of the unaffordability. [...] In order to effectively respond to the housing and homelessness crisis, it is crucial that policy-makers have better data on the causes of housing loss in Canada. [...] We recommend that the answers be updated to directly capture circumstances where a household was not able to stay in their home because their housing was inadequate in regards to one of more of these elements. [...] For example: • Security of tenure: the household moved because their lease expired or they otherwise lost the legal right to occupy the housing; • Availability of services: the household moved because they lacked basic services such as heat or potable water; • Habitability: the household moved because their housing was not adequately maintained or repaired; • Accessibility: the household moved bec. [...] Most of the answers to the current PAC_Q45 assume that households typically move in order to improve their housing situations.