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Canada’s housing affordability crisis is now actually changing people’s lives

They are leaving the cities they grew up in and putting off marriage, children

More than a decade of sky-high housing prices is changing society, according to a new report by Desjardins Group.

Terrible housing affordability is forcing adults aged 34 and younger to flee the cities in which they grew up, the report said. Younger Canadians also are putting off marriage and waiting longer to have children, decisions Desjardins chief economist Jimmy Jean and his team said relate to the instability of renting or residing with family.

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