12-04-2014, 10:44 PM
Population and Housing
Population and Housing
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12-04-2014, 10:44 PM
Population and Housing
12-04-2014, 10:46 PM
Higher-density living reshapes region’s urban landscape
Nov 25, 2014 | Rose Simone | The Record | LINK Quote:KITCHENER — Throughout Waterloo Region, the shift to more compact living is obvious.
12-04-2014, 10:47 PM
If the figures in the article above are accurate since 2009 the region has only had a net population increase of 18,000. Unless this doesn't include local births?
12-05-2014, 06:45 AM
(12-04-2014, 10:47 PM)rangersfan Wrote: If the figures in the article above are accurate since 2009 the region has only had a net population increase of 18,000. Unless this doesn't include local births? Region of Waterloo population data would appear to support the data from CMHC (the numbers cited appear to be quite similar) both would use official StatsCan data while CMHC would also have additional more detailed data based on their own intelligence reports related to the very detailed housing data CMHC collects. Year-End 2013 Population and Household Estimates for the Region of Waterloo
12-06-2014, 12:57 AM
If I read the Region's numbers correctly, the population is growing at less than 2% and the peak growth rate was 2.63% per cent in 2004. Are there any demographers out there that want to track this growth rate against the commercial and industrial activity from 1991-2014? Has the high tech growth offset the manufacturing and other sector losses?
12-06-2014, 07:24 AM
The country is growing around 1% a year. So 2% is double the national rate.
12-08-2014, 04:08 PM
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Apartment surge fuels housing start increase
Waterloo Region Record By Record staff WATERLOO REGION — Housing starts in Waterloo Region increased almost four-fold in November due to a surge of apartment construction. Foundations were poured for buildings containing 753 housing units, up from 191 in November 2013, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Monday. Last month's total includes 84 single-detached homes, up from 52 a year earlier. Buildings containing 646 apartment units were started last month. That compares to 106 apartment units in November 2013. Of the apartment total, 624 are in buildings in Waterloo. Housing starts in the first 11 months of the year totaled 4,067, up from 1,750 in the same period a year ago. The surge in apartment construction accounts for most of the increase. "Strong demand from students, as well as immigrants, young households and seniors has supported apartment construction this year," Erica McLerie, the housing corporations senior market analyst for this area, said in a news release. "With starts in 2013 below demographic demand, housing starts in 2014 have surged to meet pent-up demand, The corporation said housing starts in the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge census metropolitan area are trending at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5,153 units, up from 3,806 in October. .... http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5186...-increase/
01-14-2015, 10:45 AM
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Region grants $1 million for 15 affordable housing units
Waterloo Region Record By Johanna Weidner KITCHENER — The region granted more than $1 million to the Working Centre to create 15 affordable housing units in Kitchener, with about half expected to be ready for new tenants before summer. They will be one-bedroom units, which are in high demand in Waterloo Region — leaving people waiting at least six years for a spot. ... http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5256...ing-units/ I believe that the building on King St E that used to house the Morning Glory Café is the first building that the Working Centre is renovating for affordable housing. I imagine that the other two buildings mentioned in the article are also Downtown.
01-14-2015, 01:13 PM
Yeah, the working centre also owns the building behind Morning Glory where Recycle Cycles and the Green Door are. The plan I heard was to remove the fencing and make the rear part of the building more pedestrian friendly and well-lit during the night. It's a neat little nook at could have potential for a nice little green space. The building that used to house Braun's locksmith is also slated to get upgraded apartments I heard (a rumour, I have no sources)
01-14-2015, 01:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2015, 01:46 PM by panamaniac.)
I have been wondering about the future of the old Braun building since last year, when I peaked inside and saw the beautiful, brick-walled space that had been created by stripping out the interior.
03-20-2015, 11:26 PM
Waterloo housing: the dream … and the surprising reality
Quote:In 2002, 73 per cent of all new housing across the region was traditional, single-family detached homes and 10 per cent was condos or apartments. As of 2014, just 25 per cent were singles and 42 per cent multi-unit residential.
03-20-2015, 11:47 PM
It's pretty clear that you pay a hefty premium to live in an Uptown or Downtown condo, but it's a price that at least some are willing to pay. At the moment, the condo resale market is pretty flat, although sales of SFHs and townhouses seem to be decent.
03-21-2015, 09:32 AM
Yes, of course.
I took the article to say two things that argue in favour of further intensification in the downtown cores: 1. As boomers retire and age they'll sell their SFHs in the 'burbs and move to the core. Therefore there will be an ample supply of resale SFHs for those who need them, e.g. those who are raising a family. There's no need to expand further out into the countryside. 2. Demand for housing in the core is coming not only from those boomers also from young professionals in high-tech jobs who don't want SFHs. Construction of the LRT will increase that demand further and provide other synergies from intensification. The article failed to mention the university student population. That currently numbers about 50,000 between UW and WLU. Presumably that number is growing at least as fast as the population as a whole. That's almost all apartments and mostly near the universities.
03-21-2015, 10:39 AM
(03-21-2015, 09:32 AM)ookpik Wrote: Yes, of course. Points 1 and 2, yes. I don't know if I would count on increasing university student counts. Trends in student demographics are not increasing. The percentage of people pursuing higher education does increase, but the traditional student-aged population isn't. So WLU had declines in # of applicants for instance.
03-21-2015, 10:58 AM
(03-20-2015, 11:26 PM)ookpik Wrote: Waterloo housing: the dream … and the surprising reality There is a mistake in this article. It's in the following paragraph: Quote:The study supported what the region had already determined during its official plan process in 2009: that Waterloo only needed to expand its borders by an additional 80 hectares to accommodate enough suburban homes to meet population growth. This 80 hectares of new greenfield the Region determined was needed to expand the boundaries by was not for housing or residential. It was for a land use designation referred to as "Prime Industrial Strategic Reserve (PISR)". In plain terms, this is essentially prestige employment lands. This expansion was contemplated for north Cambridge (i.e. north of Maple Grove) and the airport area in Woolwich. None of the 80 hectares of expansion lands was intended for housing. |
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