Housing & Homelessness

Home construction and supply platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.

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

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

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

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

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