While affordable housing continues to be a fundamental issue for all Canadians, churches, particularly in urban centres, have started to experience the implications directly. Paying pastoral staff a living wage is fast becoming unsustainable.
On the horizon, 1 in 4 senior pastors are anticipating to retire by 2030, while the cost of stable housing grows at an exponential rate.
According to CMHC, by 2030, Canada could be 4 million short of dwellings, and as a consequence, home prices are projected to increase by 89%
Pastors do not ‘grow on trees’, and in the current landscape, housing needs have put gospel preaching and church leadership at risk.
