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Toronto city council approves plan to allow for greater density in residential areas

By:Building .caPosted: Dec 21st, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Toronto city council has approved a sweeping housing plan that will significantly transform zoning bylaws in an effort to address the affordability crisis. A majority of councillors — 23 out of 26 — voted in[...]

Toronto’s housing plan could take years to improve affordability for renters: experts

By:Building .caPosted: Dec 20th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Toronto’s recently approved housing plan is a good step forward but it could take years before the increase in supply makes renting more affordable in the city, urban planners and experts say. Toronto city council[...]

Ford to Crombie, mayors criticizing housing law: ‘Get on board’ and ‘stop whining’

By:Building .caPosted: Dec 9th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

The mayor of Mississauga and other municipal leaders who have voiced opposition to a new provincial housing law need to “get on board” and “stop whining,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday in an unprompted[...]

Ontario won’t allow homes to be built on floodplains, Ford says after fed warning

By:Building .caPosted: Dec 5th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

CLARINGTON, Ont. – Ontario has no plans to allow homes to be built on floodplains, Premier Doug Ford said Friday after the federal environment minister warned Ottawa would not provide disaster compensation where development is[...]

Ontario’s Bill 23 proposes more homes built faster, but this comes at an environmental cost

By:Building .caPosted: Nov 23rd, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Bill 23 proposes to eliminate or weaken many housing development regulations including site plan controls, which keep us and our natural environment safe from the negative effects of poorly controlled development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette[...]

Canada’s National Housing Strategy: Is it really addressing homelessness and affordability?

By:Building .caPosted: Nov 19th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

In Canada, just over 10 per cent of households live in housing that is unaffordable, unsuitable or inadequate, and they cannot afford alternative housing in their community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Jacquie Gahagan, Mount Saint[...]

Ford’s plans worry Niagara conservation authority

By:Building .caPosted: Nov 15th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Group of sandhill cranes congregating in Ontario as they migrate THE LAKE REPORT The chief administrator of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority fears agencies like hers may lose the ability to protect vulnerable environments if[...]

Association of Municipalities of Ontario worries about housing bill impact

By:Building .caPosted: Oct 30th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

TORONTO – Ontario municipalities are concerned that parts of the province’s new housing legislation may actually hamper growth and download excessive burdens to them and their taxpayers. One aspect of a large bill introduced Tuesday[...]

Tory vows to use strong mayor powers to get new housing division operating fast

By:Building .caPosted: Oct 28th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

Toronto Mayor John Tory says he will use so-called strong mayor powers to create a new division at city hall to streamline housing development. We need to get more housing built faster. As promised in my Five[...]

Homes still unaffordable for average households despite fall in prices: reports

By:Building .caPosted: Sep 30th, 2022In: ConstructionNews

OTTAWA – Buying a home has become more unaffordable for Canadians even as housing prices fall, according to new reports from the parliamentary budget officer and RBC. The PBO’s house price assessment, published on Thursday,[...]