A University of Calgary grad student says there were nearly 14,000 secondary suites in the city in 2015, the vast majority of which were illegal.Â
Kylee van der Poorten used census data and the legal registry to find the suites. Only two per cent — about 278 — of the units have permits from the city, data showed.Â
Additionally, 70 per cent of those suites are in neighbourhoods where they would be permitted by current zoning regulations.Â
“I understand the drive to start with these land use restrictions and there’s a lot of social contention around the idea that we’re using land use to