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  2. Affordable housing in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Statistics Canada reported that, while Canada's "real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita increased by roughly 50% between 1980 and 2005," and the workforce increased educational attainment and work experience during this same period and median earnings among the top 20% of full-time full-year employees grew by 17.9%, among those in the ...

  3. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    Bungalow is a common term applied to a low one-story house with a shallow-pitched roof (in some locations, dormered varieties are referred to as 1.5-story, such as the chalet bungalow in the United Kingdom).

  4. Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculosis death rates in residential schools (1869–1965) The 1906 Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, submitted by chief medical officer Peter Bryce, highlighted that the "Indian population of Canada has a mortality rate of more than double that of the whole population, and in some provinces more than three times".

  5. Bungalow - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] One primary difference between the Chicago bungalow and other types is that the gables are parallel to the street, rather than perpendicular. Like many other local houses, Chicago bungalows are relatively narrow, [ 23 ] being an average of 20 feet (6.1 m) wide on a standard 24-foot (7.3 m) or 25-foot (7.6 m) wide city lot.

  6. Split-level home - Wikipedia

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    Raised ranch: The raised ranch includes a basement on the bottom and a "full set of stairs" (a full flight of stairs, usually 12 or 13) which leads to the first level. A raised ranch has a different look on the front than a split-entry as the front door lines up to the front windows differently. The front door entry is predominately at the ...

  7. Poverty in Canada - Wikipedia

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    As of 2019, Canada with a poverty rate of 11.8%, ranked 19th out of 38 OECD countries with Costa Rica at the highest rate of poverty (19.9%), and Iceland with a poverty rate of 4.9% at the lowest. [121] Poverty rates in Canada differ in provinces and territories, federal electoral districts, and rural and urban settings.

  8. Fixed vs. variable interest rates: How these rate types work ...

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    The main difference is that fixed rates stay the same over time while variable rates can fluctuate based on market conditions. In many cases, the choice between fixed and variable rates will be a ...

  9. Rates (tax) - Wikipedia

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    For the year ended June 2005, rates made up 56% of local-authority operating-revenue. [8] Almost all property owners in New Zealand pay rates; those who do so are referred to as ratepayers. People who rent property do not pay rates directly, but property owners will take account of the cost of rates when they set the rent.