Toronto Is The Fastest-Growing City In U.S. And Canada, And That’s Not Good
Toronto Is The Fastest-Growing City In U.S. And Canada, And That’s Not Good
06/01/2019 By Daniel Tencer Read More: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/...b0e346ce7eef73 Quote:
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Trump effect. Canada is tired of winning, Mr. President.
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Obviously this is all immigration.
Those immigrants would gladly come to the US in a heartbeat. But Canada is the next best choice |
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Toronto is 1st in metro growth as well if a similar method was used for the caluclating metropolitan population was used between Canada and the US. Montreal always gets over look but it's growing rapidly as well and adding more highrises than pretty much every other city in North America after Toronto and New York |
This reporter seems to think growth within city limits is the more telling number...reporters typically don't get this stuff.
Toronto's infill is remarkable, but the above is still true. |
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This is the first year this has been the case mind you, Typically Toronto grows closer to 90-100k a year, putting it well behind Dallas - Fort Worth. The 125k number last year is near record. |
Dallas is the fastest growing major city in U.S./Canada.
Also, how many articles have we seen lamenting the supposed lack of multifamily in Toronto? Bizarre. They have tons of multifamily, and moreover, the multifamily is quite cheap compared to SFH, obviously suggesting that the problem isn't too little multifamily. Also, LOL at the first sentence. Yeah, there are no immigrant families doubling up in Toronto presently. The Indian grannies you see walking around Brampton would never consider multigenerational living. |
"Toronto Is The Fastest-Growing City In U.S. And Canada"
Did I miss some sort of annexation? "In U.S."? I didn't receive an email, a fax, a memo, a care bear with a note on it pertaining to Toronto. Maybe in North America. |
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Toronto's CMA grew 125,000 by StatsCan definition though |
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We have steady population growth along with a higher GDP than most other developed nations. |
Are they really writing an article off of one data point, one year?
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Well huff huff huff.
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Bow down to lord Toronto, we are all unworthy.
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Reality is that The US is much more difficult to enter though, so Canada it is for many. I’m sure many would pick Canada over the US, but I’m also sure for many it’s a second choice. While this is the first year that Toronto has been “first” in growth, it has long stood in the top 3-4 with the classical high growth sunbelt cities. I also don’t expect it to fall from the position in the next few years either. Canada’s immigration policies are getting more liberal and admitting more people, and Alberta continues to be in a slump meaning that population growth will continue to go to Ontario. It’s really an odd location for such a high growth city from an American perspective. All around southern Ontario is rust belt cities that are at best treading water in terms of population, then there is southern Ontario which is rocketing upwards in growth. A lot of the smaller cities in the province are growing even faster than Toronto. The difference in the two Niagara Falls on either side of the border is stark. The Ontario side is generally considered to be a “crappy” city but even then it is posting large population gains and is full of new subdivisions and houses.. then you cross the river and it’s all neighbourhoods falling apart and stagnant growth. |
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Montréal (City) 2011 : 1,674,853 2017 : 1,745,802 2018 : 1,782,844 (+37k) Montréal (Island) 2011 : 1,913,451 2017 : 1,987,773 2018 : 2,029,379 (+41k) |
All wrangling about details aside, it's pretty remarkable growth for both cities. We don't hear much about Montreal's growth here.
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It's odd to characterize the City of Toronto as full of neighbourhoods with single-family houses only and lacking and actively opposing multi-family housing of any kind. Residential probably doesn't even take up 75% of the land in the City of Toronto, but somehow SFH does.
According to the 2016 Census, single-detached houses comprised only 24.2% of dwellings in the city in 2016. So over 3/4 of dwellings in the city are in multi-family structures. Even outside of the city, single-detached houses comprised only 56.4% of dwellings in the GTA. Even in the 905, it's hard to find neighbhourhoods without any multi-family housing. |
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Greater Montréal was the leader in Canada in 2018 as well. GDP at +2.9% The housing rental vacancy rate is under 2%. For three years now, in Greater Montreal, more rental housing has been built than condos. So there are a lot of offers that are added to the market, but the demand is so strong right now that it's causing a drop in the vacancy rate. |
^ Interesting, here are the us metropolitan area annual job growth numbers for 2019
https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwes...rth.htm#Table2 Nyc and Dallas over 100k, Chicago 60k, Houston 72k It’s been a good run for both economies last couple years. |
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