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Housing Watch Canada

HOUSING · RENTAL · CMHC

Housing policy Canada,
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Federal housing measures, rebates, rules and datasets — cited, dated, plain English.

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Short Term Rentals Registration

The short-term rental regulation is based on Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 547, Licensing and Registration of [Short-Term Rentals](https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/short-term-rentals/). A short-te…

Fresh: 2026-09-01 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Short Term Rental Registration & Enforcement overview

In Toronto, short-term rentals are regulated by the Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 547, Licensing and Registration of [Short-Term Rentals](https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/housing-shelter/short-term-rentals/). The…

Fresh: 2026-09-01 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Ministry of Children and Family Services’ response to A Place to Belong : A Special Report on Youth Homelessness in Alberta

This document contains Children and Family Services' public response to recommendations issued to the ministry by the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate in their A Place to Belong: A Special Report on Youth Homelessn…

Fresh: 2026-08-28 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Housing stock in units included in the gross domestic product by income and expenditure

Housing stock in units is an economic estimate of the number of housing units in Canada, the provinces and territories by institutional sector, dwelling occupation, dwelling type, and tenure type. These data are used to …

Fresh: 2026-08-28 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Health inspections from the Real Estate and Housing Strategy Department

This data set contains information on inspections carried out by the Health Division of the Real Estate Strategy and Housing Department (formerly the Housing Department). The City of Montreal, through its [Regulation Res…

Fresh: 2026-08-26 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Off-market housing in the agglomeration of Montreal

List of projects and/or buildings associated with off-market housing. Inventory built from various data sources of varying quality in the early 2000s and maintained since then on an annual basis. Data used to better unde…

Fresh: 2026-08-26 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

B.C. Housing Affordability

Note: the best method to download the .csv file is to right click on the ‘Access/Download’ link on the box to the right, and then select ‘Save link as’ to download the .csv file directly. This data provides a quarterly o…

Fresh: 2026-08-26 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Heating Assistance Rebate Program

The Heating Assistance Rebate Program helps low-income Nova Scotians with the cost of home heating. Applicants are able to apply online or by mail for the program annually. Data field names: - total applications received…

Fresh: 2026-08-26 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Property Tax Rebate for Seniors

The Property Tax Rebate for Seniors helps low-income seniors with the cost of municipal residential property taxes. Rebates are 50% of what seniors paid on last year’s property taxes, up to a maximum of $800. Data field …

Fresh: 2026-08-26 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Property Tax Rebate for Seniors by County

The Property Tax Rebate for Seniors helps low-income seniors with the cost of municipal residential property taxes. Rebates are 50% of what seniors paid on last year’s property taxes, up to a maximum of $800. Data field …

Fresh: 2026-08-26 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

New housing price index, monthly

New housing price index (NHPI). Monthly data are available from January 1981. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (201612=100).

Fresh: 2026-08-20 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, newly completed and unoccupied housing in selected census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations of 50,000 and over

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (67 items: Barrie; Ontario; Abbotsford-Mission; British Columbia; Census metropolitan areas and census agg…

Fresh: 2026-08-19 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, all rural areas, Canada and provinces, 6-month moving average

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Atlantic provinces ...).

Fresh: 2026-08-19 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, all rural areas, Canada and provinces, seasonally adjusted at annual rates, monthly

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island ...).

Fresh: 2026-08-19 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, all areas, Canada and provinces, 6-month moving average

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Atlantic provinces; Canada ...).

Fresh: 2026-08-19 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts, all areas, Canada and provinces, seasonally adjusted at annual rates, monthly

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Atlantic provinces ...).

Fresh: 2026-08-19 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts in all centres 10,000 and over, Canada, provinces, and census metropolitan areas, 6-month moving average

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (47 items: Prince Edward Island; Atlantic provinces; Newfoundland and Labrador; Canada ...), Type of unit …

Fresh: 2026-08-19 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, housing starts in all centres 10,000 and over, Canada, provinces, and census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted at annual rates, monthly

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (47 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Type of unit …

Fresh: 2026-08-19 · open.canada.ca · OGL-C

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