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Author Miron, John R., 1947-

Title Housing in postwar Canada : demographic change, household formation, and housing demand / John R. Miron
Published Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (x, 309 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definitions and Concepts -- 3 Postwar Patterns of Family Formation -- 4 Postwar Household Formation -- 5 Analysis of Household Formation -- 6 Income and Household Formation -- 7 The Postwar Housing Stock -- 8 Prosperity and Housing Affordability -- 9 Public Policy and Housing Supply -- 10 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Summary The size of Canadian households has been declining since at least the 1880s. Miron compares this trend to patterns of household size in England and the United States and argues that postwar changes in household formation in Canada were the result of several forces including the postwar baby boom, increased longevity, changes in marriage pattern, rising incidence of divorce, increased household affluence, and new forms of government assistance to housing. While aggregate growth in population, families, and households helps to explain why more housing was necessary, it does not explain changes in the kind of houses desired. Miron discusses changes in available housing stock as well as changes in structural type such as the great apartment boom of the late 1960s and the re-emergence of owner occupancy in the late 1970s. The types of data available for measuring change in the stock and sources of error in housing data are also analyzed. One of the books most important contributions is an annotated synthesis of national trends in household formation and housing demand, derived from Statistics Canada census data, and accompanied by an insightful analysis of the relation of these trends to housing stock evolution. This is the only available detailed study of these topics in the Canadian context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index
Notes English
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Subject Housing -- Canada
Households -- Canada
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Households
Housing
Population
Wohnungsversorgung
SUBJECT Canada -- Population
Subject Canada
Kanada
Genre/Form e-books.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773561410
0773561412
1282850989
9781282850989
9786612850981
6612850981