Metro Vancouver named eviction capital of Canada in new UBC report
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A new University of British Columbia study found that renters in Metro Vancouver are evicted at almost twice the rate of renters in the Greater Toronto area.
Using data from Statistics Canada between the years 2013 and 2018, researchers found 10.5 per cent of renters in the Metro Vancouver region said their most recent move was due to an eviction.
In the Greater Toronto area, that number was 5.8 per cent, and in Montreal it's 4.2 per cent. The Canadian average sits at 5.7 per cent.
Craig Jones, one of the study authors and the research coordinator at UBC's Housing Research Collaborative, says the results surprised him.
"I've been a renter in Vancouver for a long time. Anecdotally it can be tough out there to be a renter, but to have a finding [where] ... Metro Vancouver really stands out by a large margin, especially compared to the average for a Canadian metropolitan area [is surprising]," he said.
Zuzana Modrovic, a staff lawyer in the Housing Law Clinic at the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre in Vancouver, says the results did not come as a surprise.
"We've thought for quite a long time that evictions were extremely high in Vancouver and in B.C. as well in general," she said.
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