Why Canada’s Policy-Driven, Market-Blind Housing Strategy Is Falling Short

Paul Abbott | Real Estate Magazine • September 11, 2025

Canada’s housing crisis has become a national policy priority, and for good reason. Affordability is at generational lows, rental markets are straining under record population growth, and homebuilding has slowed even as demand rises. Governments have responded with ambitious targets, zoning reforms and tax changes. Yet the gap between policy ambition and on-the-ground results remains stubbornly wide.

That gap is not just about capital or regulation. It’s also about perspective. Canadian housing policy is being made largely without the insight of those closest to its day-to-day failures: the real estate brokers and agents navigating this market in real time.

These professionals – licensed, regulated, and embedded in communities across the country – are not part of advisory panels or roundtables. They are not routinely consulted when legislation is drafted or programs are rolled out. But they are the first to see where housing policy is succeeding, stalling, or simply missing the mark.

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