{"id":151,"date":"2026-10-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:00:00","slug":"affordability-index-remains-higher-than-2019-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/28\/affordability-index-remains-higher-than-2019-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordability Index Remains Higher Than 2019 Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Canadian housing affordability improved for the 11th consecutive quarter in Q2 2026, with the affordability index falling to 41.3%, down from a peak of 54.5% in late 2023. Despite gains from interest rate cuts, home price drops, and income growth, affordability remains above pre-pandemic levels. Further improvement depends mainly on price declines, as interest rates are unlikely to fall soon. Regional disparities persist, with some provinces still facing high prices.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/businessexaminer.ca\/real-estate\/item\/canada-housing-affordability-index-q2-2026-bmo\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian housing affordability improved for the 11th consecutive quarter in Q2 2026, with the affordability index falling to 41.3%, down from a peak of 54.5% in late 2023. Despite gains from interest rate cuts, home price drops, and income growth, affordability remains above pre-pandemic levels. Further improvement depends mainly on price declines, as interest rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}