⚠️ Work in Progress: This repository is under active development. Data pipeline and API may change.
Official data repository for the Canadian Housing Observatory, a real-time monitoring system for housing market risk and financial stability across Canadian provinces and metropolitan regions.
This repository serves as the upstream data source for all Canadian Housing Observatory releases, providing a comprehensive set of tools for policy-makers, analysts, and researchers to monitor housing market dynamics and risk in Canada.
Primary housing data indices were sourced from the Teranet-National Bank HPI and CREA MLS HPI.
Statistics Canada Open Data Portal:
| Table ID | Frequency | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 36-10-0663-01 | Quarterly | Household (Disposable) Income Data (in millions) |
| 11-10-0239-01 | Yearly | Household (Disposable) Income Data (in millions) |
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mlian031/cho-data.git
cd cho-data
# Create a virtual environment and install dependencies
uv venv # or python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # on windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
uv pip install -r requirements.txt # or pip install -r requirements.txtInside scripts/ there will be scripts to clean up each raw dataset.
You can download the processed datasets from the artifact of the github action workflow.
Maintainer: Mike Liang (mlian031@uottawa.ca)
Issues: Report here
We thank the University of Ottawa for supporting this work and the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) Housing Observatory for inspiring this work.