Housing & Homelessness platforms

Here's what the candidates in Humber River—Black Creek, and their parties, are promising.

Home construction and supply

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Liberal

  • Remove the Ontario Land Transfer Tax for first-time homebuyers, seniors downsizing, and non-profit homebuilders
  • Remove development charges on new housing

    "Scrapping Development Charges on new housing, cutting costs by as much as $170,000 on each new family-sized home." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a fund to help municipalities cover infrastructure costs

    "Introducing the Better Communities Fund to help municipalities cover infrastructure costs." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Update building codes and subjective design rules

    "Modernize building codes and subjective design rules (ex. setback, step back, angular plane), establish a provincial catalogue of pre-approved housing designs, create more housing near transit and arterial roads following best practices adopted by other jurisdictions like British Columbia and speed up the conversion of underutilized offices and commercial spaces to homes." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a catalogue of pre-approved housing designs
  • Build more housing near transit and arterial roads

    "Modernize building codes and subjective design rules (ex. setback, step back, angular plane), establish a provincial catalogue of pre-approved housing designs, create more housing near transit and arterial roads following best practices adopted by other jurisdictions like British Columbia and speed up the conversion of underutilized offices and commercial spaces to homes." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Communist

  • Build 200,000 units of rent-geared-to-income social housing units immediately.
  • Build 550,000 units of affordable housing.
  • Build 15,000 units of transitional housing.

    To support people leaving situations of domestic violence, incarceration, homelessness or shelters.

  • Maintain levels of affordable housing based on need.

PC

  • Invest $2B more in the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program and the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund

    "Investing another $2 billion in the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program and the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund to create new opportunities for workers in the construction sector, support municipalities and help build more homes." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

We don't have any Green policies on Home construction and supply.

ONDP

  • Allow more housing, including fourplexes and four-storey multiplexes in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors

    "Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Provide grants and low-cost financing for non-market housing providers

    "We will get Ontario back to building with Homes Ontario, the largest homebuilding program in generations. Homes Ontario will provide grants and low-cost financing to enable more non-market housing providers, like Mel Swart Co-Operative Homes and Welland’s Commonwealth Cooperative, to build on the long history of co-operative housing in the Niagara region. We will speed up the purchase of existing privately-owned rental units, to be converted to permanently affordable public, non-profit or co-op housing." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Home purchases and ownership

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Liberal

  • Remove the Ontario Land Transfer Tax for first-time homebuyers, seniors downsizing, and non-profit homebuilders
We don't have any PC policies on Home purchases and ownership.
We don't have any Green policies on Home purchases and ownership.
We don't have any ONDP policies on Home purchases and ownership.

Homeless services

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Homeless services.

Communist

  • Recognize housing as a human right.
  • Introduce a Tenant Bill of Rights and provincial housing program to ensure adequate housing based on need is provided to all.
  • Provide adequate funding for accessible emergency shelters throughout the province.
We don't have any PC policies on Homeless services.
We don't have any Green policies on Homeless services.

ONDP

  • Provincially fund homeless shelters, community housing, and homelessness prevention programmes

    "Homelessness has tripled since 2016 and is rising faster in Northern Ontario than in southern Ontario. This has imposed an especially high burden on Northern Ontario municipalities, which are left stuck paying the price for provincial policy failures. An Ontario NDP government will upload the costs of community housing, shelters and homelessness prevention programs back to the province where they belong." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Public and affordable housing

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Public and affordable housing.

Communist

  • Invest in social housing, including co-op housing with more emphasis on public and rent-geared to income housing.
  • Build 200,000 units of rent-geared-to-income social housing units immediately.
  • Build 550,000 units of affordable housing.
  • Upgrade and maintain existing units so that they are safe, secure, affordable, accessible and environmentally sound.
We don't have any PC policies on Public and affordable housing.
We don't have any Green policies on Public and affordable housing.

ONDP

  • Create 60,000 new supportive housing units

    "Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of our broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing

    "Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing, as part of our costed Homes Ontario plan, which sets a goal of 1.5 million new homes in 10 years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy

    "We will work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy to deliver affordable, culturally-appropriate housing." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Rental housing

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Liberal

  • Remove extra taxes on building rental housing like Community Benefits Charges

    "Getting more co-op and rental apartments built by removing punitive and discriminatory extra taxes like Community Benefits Charges." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Phase in rent control

    "Introducing fair, phased-in rent control." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Resolve new landlord-tenant disputes in under two months

    "Resolving new landlord-tenant disputes in under two months and clearing the 53,000-case backlog at the Landlord-Tenant Board urgently." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a provincial rent bank to provide short-term, interest-free loans for tenants facing financial emergencies

    "Establishing the Rental Emergency Support for Tenants (REST) Fund, a provincial rent bank to provide short-term, interest-free loans for tenants facing financial emergencies to prevent evictions and homelessness." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any PC policies on Rental housing.
We don't have any Green policies on Rental housing.

ONDP

  • Work with the federal government to increase funding for the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which assists with rental costs

    "More housing benefits that help people move out of shelters, into homes. Doug Ford has withheld funding for programs like the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, allowing shelters to overflow. We’ll work with the Federal government to boost the program and help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Provide more protections for renters

    "Stop people from losing their homes by bringing forward real protections for renters and doubling social assistance rates so people can better keep up with the cost of housing." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

    "Crack down on renovictions, demovictions and other illegal tactics. We’ll beef up the rules, fix the Landlord and Tenant board and we’ll stop the Conservative and Liberal plan to evict people faster." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Double social assistance rates
  • Attach rent control to the unit, so that landlords can't raise rents between tenants

    "We’ll attach rent control to the unit to stop landlords from jacking up rent between tenants - removing the incentive for landlords to use unethical tactics to squeeze out existing tenants so they can raise the rent on the next one." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Remove the rent control exemption for units built after 2018

    "We’ll close the unfair loophole that exempts units built after 2018." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Allow more housing, including fourplexes and four-storey multiplexes in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors

    "Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Limit short-term rentals like Airbnb to one's primary residence

    "Limit short-term rentals (eg: Airbnb) to one’s primary residence, protecting the supply of long-term rental housing" — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Trades

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Liberal

  • Provide tax credits for employers who hire young people through paid co-op, internship, and apprenticeship programmes

    "Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Communist

  • Expand apprenticeship programs and invest in youth employment.

PC

  • Require all electrical workers to be registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification

    "Doug Ford renewed the Ontario PCs’ commitment to enforce compulsory certification in the electrical trade and ensure all electrical workers in Ontario are registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

We don't have any Green policies on Trades.
We don't have any ONDP policies on Trades.