Don't worry about it. The federal government is driving away small business with its new tax rules, and the city of Toronto is giving more and more condo permits to more and more developers to collect money to pay its bills it otherwise cannot. So sooner or later the city won't have any more jobs and the condos it sells to investors are going to be left empty. So this "housing crisis" is very short term. Give it a year or so and Toronto will be like Calgary: six months free and a color TV just for thinking about renting the place.  Meanwhile in Tumbler Ridge, BC  the average value of a single-family home in the mining town of 2,700 is expected to climb 5.48 per cent in 2017, from $138,000 to $146,000, according to BC Assessment data earlier this year. Think of it as a gap year for people with really good winter coats.