Housing not affordable for minimum wage earner in 25 of 28 urban areas.Ottawa--The current minimum wage rates are insufficient in 25 of 28 metropolitan areas in Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of to afford the average rent for a bachelor apartment, a report published by the Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Housing and Renewal Association indicates. Larger housing units are unaffordable un·af·ford·a·ble adj. Too expensive: medical care that has become unaffordable for many. un every where. Based on the norm of 30% of income for rent, the study prepared by Steve Pomeroy of Focus Consulting Inc. shows that Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa have affordable housing while Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres and Saguenay are the only areas where an average bachelor unit can be obtained by a person earning the minimum wage. Canada's second largest city, Montreal, requires a minimum wage of $8.96 an hour to afford an average bachelor unit. The provincial minimum wage is $7.60 per hour. The city has more affordable housing than Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Oshawa, Halifax, Kitchener, Calgary, Victoria, Kingston, Edmonton, Windsor, St. Catherines There are seven St. Catherines:
In 15 cities more than 2 full time minimum wage earners are required to find affordable housing without spending more 30th of income for the rent, or crowd more people into the lower rent smaller units. The report, Minimum Housing Wage--A New Way to Think About Rental Housing Affordability, is the first using this method of relating minimum wages to average rents in Canada. The concept of a minimum housing wage was developed by the US National Low Income Housing Coalition and is published annually in the US by the NLIHC NLIHC National Low Income Housing Coalition as a way to draw attention to this economic issue. Rental housing is an important source of housing for lowest income earners For US-specific income information see Income in the United States Income earner refers to an individual who through work, investments or a combination of both dervies income, which has a fixed and very fixed value of his/hr income (sometimes, called Vulkary Workers). in urban areas. Across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. one third of all households are renters and in Quebec 90% rent their dwellings. www.chra-achm.ca
Least Min. wage, per hr Actual
affordable to afford bachelor provincial min.
urban areas apt, using 30% of wage per hr
income Oct. 2005
Toronto 13.92 7.45
Vancouver 13.92 8.00
Ottawa 12.08 7.45
Most affordable
urban areas
Sherbrooke 6.48 7.60
Trois Rivieres 6.17 7.60
Sagenay 6.02 7.60
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