A joint study by Statistics Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has developed a new framework to project how immigration levels influence housing demand. Unlike simpler models, this approach accounts for "two-step" immigrants who transition from temporary to permanent status and are often already housed, reducing their immediate impact on new demand. The framework also uses tax filing data to exclude individuals who are not actively residing in Canada and tracks how immigrants typically transition from rental housing to homeownership over time. Projections indicate that total housing use is a cumulative result of multiple admission cohorts, not just new arrivals. For instance, an intake of 395,000 residents in 2025 is estimated to require approximately 81,560 additional units, a figure far lower than estimates based solely on average household size.