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JOHN BISSET/STUFF Sue Boyce was unable to afford home ownership after her divorce, but is now happy living in a tiny house she and her son built. In March 2018, home ownership was at its lowest in almost 70 years. Since then the median price has almost doubled and rent is up by a quarter. Stuff’s Off the Ladder series talks to those priced out of the market. It was a year after her divorce that Sue Boyce says she realised she would never own another home. She was 51, had five children to care for including two foster children, and wasn’t able to get enough equity out of the family’s farm when it was sold to get back on the ladder.
Illustration by Janet Mac, Updated 16:44, Dec. 16, 2020 | Published 14:14, Dec. 16, 2020 The desk was tiny, wooden, and had no legs it was meant to be screwed into a corner. When I was done using it, I could fold it flat against my bedroom wall and hide it behind my full-length mirror. In my ecstatic state buying it online, I may have even called it beautiful. It was only the end of March and, a few weeks in, the pandemic already felt interminable. My partner and I were both working from the one-bedroom apartment we rent in Vancouver I as a graduate student and teaching assistant, he as a journalist. I hadn’t opened a book or touched my thesis in weeks. I needed the proverbial room of one’s own, one with a door silencing my partner’s eating sounds and diaphragmatic work voice. I thought the desk would be my ticket back to normalcy via productivity.