Over a year ago StatCan released the first set of CHS data that showed frighteningly high rates of forced moves in BC. @LausterNa and I dug into recently released PUMF data to add context, see how this varies within BC, and how it has changed over time. doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2021/03/2…
This is a follow-up on this over a year old post that looked at forced moved (and other data) from the CHS when the first tables were released. The PUMF data we got now allows to paint a fuller picture. doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2019/11/2…
What can be learned about forced moves from PUMF data? Firstly, instead of looking a share of moves that are forced, we can look at risk of forced moves in the past year. And Vancouver comes out in the middle of the pack. 
That’s surprising, what’s going on? Two things. Firstly, there are comparably few choice moves in Vancouver, people are stuck in place and don’t move as much as people to in other CMAs. That makes for smaller denominators when looking at share of moves that are forced.
Secondly, to get a well-defined risk from the data we look at moves in the past year. We can try to exponentials that risk to roughly compare to moves over 5 years, and we notice that risk of forced moves dropped sharply. This may be the effect of NDP tenant protections. Yay!
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