owning a home. But after years of looking to buy something that would be suitable for the family they hope to start in Vancouver, they’ve quit searching.“We’ve seen the bidding wars and houses selling way over asking price.
It’s very discouraging,” Peñaloza, who works as a research assistant at the University of British Columbia, told Global News.With the average home price in Canada jumping 31.6 per cent year-over-year in March, Peñaloza and Gonzalez are part of a cohort of people under the age of 35 who feel that their dreams of homeownership are increasingly out of reach.
These millennial prospective buyers have seen their earnings hammered by two major recessions now.Affordable housing advocates say young workers who remain shut out of.