Urban Futures - Research

The Urban Futures Institute, a non-profit membership society, was founded in 1996 to provide the public presentations and reports on dimensions of demographic and economic change. Since its inception, The Institute has published over 70 reports in addition to numerous articles related to managing change. Please choose a topic area, or see our full list of reports below to view or download our featured publications.

There is considerable interest in issues of housing affordability in communities throughout British Columbia. Unfortunately, there is very little in the way of valid statistical evidence that can assist in measuring the extent of affordability problems, in identifying the causes of these problems, or in identifying the segments of our communities experiencing them.

This series of reports focuses on the big picture, looking at commonly-cited measures of housing affordability and what they do, and do not, tell us about housing affordability in BC.

Population Dynamics

Economy

Health

Housing

Education

Consumer Behaviour

Planning

Land Use

Full Report List