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Podcast: The Real Estate Espresso Podcast
Episode: Student Housing Supply and Demand
Description: On today’s show we’re talking about demographics and policy. In Canada, our fertility rate is 1.48. We’re not making enough babies to maintain population. Like most western economies, fertility rates are below the 2.1 required to maintain population constant.Â
The US is at 1.64
Italy is at 1.24
China is at 1.09
So countries with low fertility and rising populations are acquiring population through immigration. That’s true in the US, Canada, and much of Western Europe.
Canada is a large country in terms of land mass...