Prize home lottery

[1] Prize home lotteries began to appear across North America, Australia, and Western Europe in the 1950s.

[4][5] In the spring of 1939, Toronto mayor Ralph Day came under scrutiny since the earliest home lotteries were not governmentally regulated.

[6] In 1944, the Ottawa Journal announced that the Canadian province of Ontario was experiencing "an epidemic of house lotteries.

"[7] Outside of Canada, the idea of a prize home lottery started becoming widespread in the United States, Australia, and Western Europe in the 1950s.

[28][29] In 2021, My Lottery Dream Home International, a related programme with a global as opposed to American focus premiered with host Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.