According to a Demographia housing-affordability survey, seven of Canada’s largest 40 metro areas are severely unaffordable, 10 are seriously unaffordable, 13 are moderately unaffordable and 10 are unaffordable.

So 40 of 40 metro areas have some level of unaffordability? This study also concluded that all major cities in Australia are unaffordable too.

How do literally millions upon millions of people afford the unaffordable? Perhaps the definition of unafforable needs revisiting.

The remainder of this article reads like a page out of a NDP manifesto.