The contributors identify important considerations for evaluating the current and future housing situation, clarify housing research issues and priorities, and indicate emergent policy issues. The essays are divided into six sections: economic, demographic, and institutional factors underlying the postwar demand for housing; principal aspects of the supply side of housing, including housing finance, technology, and regulation; housing-stock growth and changes in housing quality; the balance of supply and demand in terms of adequacy, suitability, and affordability; the changing settlement...

Between 1945 and 1981 the Canadian population doubled, while the number of dwellings more than tripled. John Miron shows how changes in demographic structure and housing affordability affected postwar household formation and housing demand. He argues that no single explanation adequately reflects the extent of the impact of the demographic trends and the economic changes.

Les collaborateurs identifient certains criteres importants pour l'evaluation de la situation actuelle et future dans le domaine du logement, precisent les questions et priorites de la recherche en matiere de logement et signalent certaines questions de politique qui se dessinent. Les articles sont repartis en six sections: facteurs economiques, demographiques et institutionnels sous-jacents a la demande de logements au cours de la periode de l'apres-guerre; principaux aspects de l'offre de logements, et notamment financement, technologie et reglementation; croissance du parc immobilier et...