Canada's housing sector experienced significant disruptions due to the impacts of COVID-19 on housing mobility. Housing market and mobility trends exacerbate access and affordability issues. Literature hasn't explored the complexity and extent of these changes. We used 2018 and 2021 Canadian Housing Surveys to assess the effects of individual and structural factors on housing mobility pre- and post-COVID. It is essential to explore how different factors such as tenure status, previous housing experiences, demographics, employment, and housing conditions impact the decisions of first-time homebuyers, renters, and homeowners to move, to understand housing mobility trends in Canadian cities before and after the pandemic. Survey data supports household-level analysis. Previous studies have shown that the beginning of the pandemic resulted in economic fluctuations, which, coupled with low mortgage rates and high housing demand, affected property prices. But in 2022, interest rates climbed, and affordability dropped. These changes, together with emerging trends in the workforce, remote work, and population mobility, have changed patterns of housing mobility in cities and exacerbated inequalities in urban areas. Therefore, to examine these changes simultaneously, we focus in this study on housing mobility in housing justice and migration governance, focusing on Canada's restrictive and unequal regional systems. The existence of speculative markets, chronic shortage of affordable housing, and demographic changes due to the pandemic have collectively attenuated the impact that federal policies were meant to achieve. The research finds variations in housing outcomes by region and size of the cities, and the mobility-restricting policies that are in place.