New Housing Construction

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Overview

A Tableau dashboard was created to visualize new housing construction statistics across Canada. Multiple dashboards were collected into a cohesive story on Canadian housing.

Year

2024

Industry

Housing

Challenge

Estimates suggest that between 430,000 and 480,000 new housing units are needed across Canada to meet current demands and retain housing affordability. The amount of new housing construction varies between provinces both in terms of scale and type, and it can be difficult to maintain a comprehensive overview of multiple housing-related variables. This project, completed at NSCC's Centre of Geographic Sciences, used Tableau Desktop to produce dashboards and stories summarizing key statistics on new housing construction in Canada.

Impact

The new housing construction Tableau dashboard brought together data from across the country, including the number of open projects, the most common unit type under construction, and the ratio of started to completed housing units. Since the project was completed in Nova Scotia, part of the Tableau story highlighted the Maritimes, taking a closer look at the most common units constructed in each province. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia lead with apartment units, while PEI construction is more focused on single-detached homes.

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