About the report:
Edmonton Vital Signs is an annual check-up conducted by Edmonton Community Foundation, in partnership with the Edmonton Social Planning Council, to measure how our community, is doing with a focus on a specific topic. This year we are looking at Edmonton’s immigrant and refugee population.
Housing
Affordable housing
41% of City of Edmonton Renters (47,055 Households) live in unafforadable housing– meaning they spend more than 30% of their household income on housing costs
Community Housing
The economic downturn is having a profound impact on the number of Edmonton residents waiting for affordable housing. Capital Region Housing, the major community housing provider in the region, saw its wait list more than triple over the course of the 2015 calendar year.
As of December 31, 2015, 4, 163 families were waiting for accommodation, and 231 new applications were being recieved each month.
Publication Date:
2016