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The index shows that 46 per cent of renter house- holds in Waterloo and 42 per cent of renter house- holds in Kitchener are spending more than the recommended 30 per cent of their income on rent and utilities, while one of four in Waterloo and nearly one in five in Kitchener are spending more than half their income on rental housing. The trend isn't confined to Kitchener and Waterloo. More than 1.7 million rent- er households in Canada spend over the recom- mended affordability benchmark of 30 per cent of gross income on rent and utilities. Of those, 795,000 renter households spend over half of their income on housing. "Traditionally, spend- ing 30 per cent or less of household income on rent has been viewed as the benchmark of what's con- sidered affordable," ac- cording to Jill Atkey, act- ing CEO of the BC Non- Profit Housing Associa- tion. "However, the data shows that spending more than 30 per cent of income on housing has become the new normal for families in almost all areas of Cana- da." Deb Schlichter, the Re- gion of Waterloo's director of housing, said recent measures taken by the province to calm the real estate market, such as mortgage stress tests, have made the rental market even tighter here. Many people are stay- ing in the rental market longer, as a result, she ex- plained. "There's less turnover in units, so there's less peo- ple moving out, which im- pacts the vacancy rate. So now you've got a more com- petitive market where less units are available to the people that are looking for them." People can view the 2018 Canadian Rental Housing Index at www.rentalhou- singindex.ca. LOCAL Rental housing becoming more unaffordable, census data shows BILL JACKSON bjackson@kitchenerpost.ca Don't be a LitterBug! Please keep our community clean.