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Creator Network
Gen-Zer says living with parents was once a choice — now it's a necessity
Wasif Haseeb is facing high rents and diminishing hopes of home ownership. While living with parents was once a cultural and financial choice, the 28 year-old says staying in the nest longer is now a necessity for his generation.
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Inflation in Canada hits 39-year high
New numbers from Statistics Canada show the country's inflation rate rose to 8.1 per cent last month, the fastest annual increase since 1983.
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Kids’ sports get cut as cost of living rises
Some families have stopped putting their children in sports programs or are finding ways to reduce other expenses as the cost of sports increases.
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Charities see increased need, rising cost of supplies
Inflation is forcing many charities to find ways to cope with dual challenges of the increased need for services and the rising cost of supplies.
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Consumers, businesses on edge as inflation hits 40-year high
With inflation reaching a high not seen since 1983, Canadians are looking for ways to earn more and spend less, while businesses are trying to manage rising costs.
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'I've faced a lot of discrimination': Being queer and Black has shut doors, renter says
Unsafe Spaces is a new CBC Manitoba Creator Network video series by filmmaker Sidney Phommarath. In Part 1, we meet Tamika Krush, a queer Black femme who has been a target of housing discrimination, they say.
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More Canadians than ever can't afford to buy a home. But is owning always better than renting?
With housing prices rising at a significantly faster pace than wages, home ownership has become increasingly unaffordable for Canadians.
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3 roommates, 2 cats, no privacy: A gen-Zer's affordable housing solution
Winnipegger Samantha Don is never alone. She lives with three roommates in a house, because that's what they can afford as gen-Zers in a tight housing and rental market.
Creator Network
Why emerging artist Lindasson says his Caldwell neighbourhood made him the rapper he is
Hip-hop artist Lindasson shares his story of growing up in an Ottawa community housing neighbourhood as part of CBC's Creator Network and for a new series about the housing struggles and solutions facing young Canadians called 'Unlocked.'
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Restaurant worries about keeping prices low, staying afloat with rising food costs
A Toronto restaurant, Square Boy, known for its consistently low prices, is worried about staying afloat because of the impact of rising food prices and inflation.
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Vancouver and Victoria rents jump 20% in 6 months as thousands move to B.C.
Canadians migrating from other provinces to the West Coast are putting even more pressure on B.C.'s already strained housing supply, driving rents even further out of reach.
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The cost of living may be going up, but wages are rising, too
Inflation has risen to its highest point in a generation, pushing up the price of just about everything. That goes for people's labour, too, as employers compete to keep up with their staffing needs.
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Tears for tenants forced out of homes as B.C.'s rental crisis spreads to Prince George
Prince George is the latest B.C. city to face a rental crisis and will need thousands of new homes to be built in under a decade to offset the effects, according to a new report.
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Creator Network
Just how cheap were apartments in Montreal?
For CBC's Creator Network, Montreal musician, comedian and TikTok creator Eve Parker Finley looks through old classified ads to see how affordable housing was in this idealized era of Montreal renting.
A shipping container rental property is the first of its kind in Calgary
When Laurenne Mercier was looking to move into her own place in early 2021, she knew that renting a full-sized house would be too much space for her. Then, the perfect property fell into her lap.
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From 40K in debt to condo owner: Advice from a Winnipeg millennial who dug themself out
As a multi-job worker and millennial, Maribeth Tabanera dug themself out of debt to become a condo owner. Tabanera shares their tips to avoiding major debt and the stress that comes along with it. Their film is part of Unlocked; Housing stories by young Canadians, a national storytelling series by CBC's Creator Network.
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Rising tuition, student debt weigh heavily on post-secondary students
Facing ever-rising tuition as well as higher prices for food, housing and other necessities, Canadian students shared their costs of living and the financial pressures worrying them.
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Affordable housing hard to find in Richmond, B.C., as residents watch condo construction boom
According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, no new rental housing was built in Richmond, B.C., from July 2018 to July 2021, but the city disputes this data.
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Side hustle, self-employed and personal support workers among Canadians feeling gas price pinch
The higher fuel prices seen in recent weeks are impacting all Canadians, but particularly those who need to use their cars for work, such as delivery drivers, cleaners and personal support workers.
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A landlord hiked rents again and again. Canada's housing agency rewarded him every time
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has been playing a role in renovictions by helping some property owners secure rock-bottom interest rates, even as the federal minister who oversees the agency has been tasked with finding ways to curb "excessive" rent hikes and evictions due to renovations.
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Hamilton family struggling to find a place to live in city's unaffordable rental market
This Hamilton family is struggling to find a place to rent because they say landlords aren't confident they can afford a unit — but the family makes too much money to qualify for subsidized units, pitting them in a race against time to find a home.
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Co-ops allow people of all incomes to live affordably in cities. So why aren't we building more?
There was a time when Catherine Munn didn’t know how she could afford to live in Vancouver as a single mother. Now, she lives in a bright, airy, one-bedroom apartment in east Vancouver for which she pays about half of what market rent would be.
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Waterloo region businesses close due to 'heartless' rent increases, lack of market regulations
Several businesses in Waterloo region have shut down this year as a result of increasing rent costs. An organization representing businesses in Ontario is calling on the province to implement better rent control protections for commercial real estate.
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Most mortgage holders walking thin line as rates rise: poll
An Angus Reid poll found that 58 per cent of homeowners say the costs of owning a home are already crowding out other parts of their budget.
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Young B.C. families are having fewer children, opting out of parenthood as cost of living skyrockets
Data from Statistics Canada show 19 per cent of Canadians aged 19 to 45 say they plan on having fewer children than they did prior to the pandemic. Another 14 per cent say they've delayed having children, citing economic pressures and the rising cost of living.