Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted on MountainMath.

Evidence suggests a clear correlation between rents and rates of homelessness in the USA. The simplest interpretation is that housing shortages drive rents higher and leave more people falling through the cracks of our systems for distributing housing. That is, homelessness is a housing problem.

Do we also see this relationship in Canada? And if so, just how does it work?

Here we’ll attempt to pull together some Canadian data to address the first question and also look into the second.

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