[QUOTE=misher;8401035]Housing starts are way down. Hope it’s a blip or we’re going to have another crisis in a decade. QUOTE]
They're not. The most up-to-date numbers from CMHC are for the first 10 months of the year (to the end of October). They show 19,538 housing starts in 2018, compared to 20,927 in the first 10 months of 2017. There were 23,109 starts in the first 10 months of 2016, and 17,325 in the same period of 2015, and 15,873 in 2014. So they're very slightly down this year compared to last year, but more were started than three or four years ago.
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