The unprecedented upswing in the national home ownership rate, fuelled in large part by a credit boom, appears to have peaked and is now going into reverse, even though the aging population should be putting it under upward pressure. We expect further declines in the home ownership rate in the years ahead, primarily driven by worsening affordability for younger cohorts in expensive regions such as Toronto and Vancouver.
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