Home Building, Construction and RE Groups Congratulate Ford’s PC Party
Posted: Jun 3rd, 2022In: ConstructionNewsVarious construction, home building and real estate organizations have come forward and congratulated Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford and the PC’s for being re-elected. The Progressive Conservatives cruised to a second majority government Thursday. Doug Ford’s[...]
Read More about Home Building, Construction and RE Groups Congratulate Ford’s PC PartyOREA Calls on Provincial Parties to Prioritize Housing Policies
Posted: May 15th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsAccording to the Ontario Real Estate Association, with the Canadian dream of home ownership on life support in Ontario, Ontario REALTORS are calling on all political parties and candidates running in the 2022 Ontario election[...]
Read More about OREA Calls on Provincial Parties to Prioritize Housing PoliciesPromise tracker: What the Ontario parties are pitching on the campaign trail
Posted: May 14th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO – A running list of election promises announced by the Progressive Conservatives, NDP, Liberals and Greens in Ontario since late March: Progressive Conservatives May 9: Increase disability support payment rates by five per cent[...]
Read More about Promise tracker: What the Ontario parties are pitching on the campaign trailOntario NDP, Tories promise to boost housing supply through differing measures
Posted: May 9th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsOntario’s New Democrats and Progressive Conservatives are both promising to build 1.5 million homes in 10 years, with housing affordability becoming one of the main election issues in a province grappling with a dearth of[...]
Read More about Ontario NDP, Tories promise to boost housing supply through differing measuresApartment, row house growth outpaces single detached homes: census
Posted: Apr 29th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO – Single-detached houses are still the most plentiful type of housing in Canada, but apartments and row houses are slowly catching up, the latest census data reveals. The figures released by Statistics Canada on[...]
Read More about Apartment, row house growth outpaces single detached homes: censusTrudeau says budget measures will help Canadians weather Bank of Canada rate hike
Posted: Apr 14th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsLAVAL, Que. – Measures in the recently tabled federal budget such as a tax-free savings account for first-time homebuyers will help Canadians weather the Bank of Canada’s new interest rate hike, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. Earlier[...]
Read More about Trudeau says budget measures will help Canadians weather Bank of Canada rate hikeRCCAO welcomes budget’s housing focus, concerned for funding to cities
Posted: Apr 12th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsAccording to a release by the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO), the alliance welcomes the focus on housing and infrastructure investment in the Federal Government’s Budget 2022 but is troubled that there[...]
Read More about RCCAO welcomes budget’s housing focus, concerned for funding to citiesResidential builders glad housing identified as a priority, more details are needed
Posted: Apr 11th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsA release from the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) announced that the organization is pleased the federal government has made the country’s housing crisis a major plank in its 2022 budget but it’s unclear[...]
Read More about Residential builders glad housing identified as a priority, more details are neededThe federal budget will have the support of the NDP, but will also face opposition
Posted: Apr 9th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsOTTAWA – The Liberals have done enough to honour their agreement with the NDP, but that doesn’t mean the federal budget will pass without opposition. “We still have critiques and criticisms,” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday.[...]
Read More about The federal budget will have the support of the NDP, but will also face oppositionBudget 2022: Housing supply gets $10B boost; Feds add measures to curb speculation
Posted: Apr 8th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO – The Liberal government will try to ease Canada’s housing crisis with more than $10 billion in funding meant to speed up home construction and repairs along with measures to cool the market and help those[...]
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