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Almost 13 per cent of Canadian households met one or more of the three measures, a percentage that represented almost no change since 2001.

Almost four million Canadians, among them 750,000 children under the age of 15, fell into the category of living in "core housing need." This means their accommodation is in the state of disrepair, is unsuitable for the number of people living there or eats up more than 30 per cent of the household's pre-tax income.

Build better igloos.

Do what we did with many of those people in this country--put them out on the streets, tear the rotten old buildings down, put up expensive condos, McMansions, and the like. <sarcasm/>