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Note: April 22, 2025: Updates to "CHN by income and HH size_v3".

Note: April 16, 2025: Updates to the following files have been made on April 9th and 16th: "CHN by income and HH size_v2", "cd_hh_projections_v2", "csd_hh_projections_v2", and "CMAs_all data_v3".

Note: March 31, 2025 files "Data_Element_1a" & "...1b" updated to v3 to include additional geographies (CDs and PTs) in the calculation of households close to rail transit.

Note: This dataset as of March 31st, 2025 now contains data on all 12 data elements, including core housing need among "gender diverse" households (formerly called "2SLGBTQ+" households) in table "Data_Element_ 3".

That table (i.e. Data_Element_3) now also includes core housing need data on those priority populations reported in HART's HNA Tool. Two other outputs were migrated from that HNA Tool into this Federal HNA Template dataset:
Income Categories and Affordable Shelter Costs, Percentage of Households in Core Housing Need by Income Category and Household Size, and 2021 Affordable Housing Deficit. (HICC Section 3.6), and Projected Households by Household Size and Income Category (HICC Section 6.1.1)

This Borealis dataset has been updated accordingly to include that data: "AMHI.csv" (2021 AMHI and dollar ranges of income and shelter cost categories) "cd_hh_projections.csv" (Projected households in 2031 for CDs) "csd_hh_projections.csv" (Projected households in 2031 for CSDs) "CHN by income and HH size.csv" (2021 core housing need by income and household size)

The geographical scope of the dataset has also been expanded. Before March 31st, only CSDs were included. As of March 31st, data on CDs, provinces/territories, the country of Canada, and CMA/CAs has been added. Not all data is available for all geographies:
Data from CMHC's Rental Market Survey and Starts and Completions Survey are reported at the CSD level within CMAs/CAs. Results for provinces/territories/Canada are reported, but data for CDs is not. Since these surveys may not include all CSDs within a given CD, we have not attempted to aggregate this CSD data into CDs. Data from any custom census order by HART does not include CMA/CAs. We are able to aggregate the data by CSD into CMA/CAs, but all income and shelter cost data had been categorized based on the AMHI of the CSD as part of the original order (i.e. whether a household is "Very Low" income or "Low" income depends on the median household income of the CSD that the household lives in). This will lead to some inaccuracy and ambiguity of interpretation for the income or shelter cost data reported for CMAs. Data on "gender diverse" households is only available from Statistics Canada for geographies with a population count greater than 50,000 as of the 2021 census. This represents a total of 239 geographies (incl. Canada and the provinces/territories). Due to the low number of CSDs with this data, we have not attempted to aggregated this to the CMA/CA level.

Data for CMAs/CAs will be added to the tool by mid-April 2025, but the source data has been summarized and included in this dataset:
"CMAs_all data.csv" (All available data for CMAs and CAs)

Update (March 14, 2025): Tables "Data_Element_1a" and "...1b" have been updated to exclude some non-rail rapid transit stops that were erroneous included, notably in Winnipeg.

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