Everyone in Ontario deserves affordable and safe housing.

We know there’s a housing problem in our province. Together, we can be a part of the solution.

By joining this campaign, you’re lending your voice to promote innovative ways to increase the supply of affordable, quality housing and immediate solutions to find a way out of the housing supply crisis in our province.

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Generating more supply.

Ontario’s housing crisis stems from a lack of housing supply. The Ontario government’s Housing Affordability Task Force identified a need to build 1.5 million more homes in the next ten years in order to address he supply problem. Meanwhile, a recent study by market research firm Urbanation showed that 300,000 more new purpose-built rental homes will be needed in the next decade just to keep pace with current demand. The task ahead is big, but there are solutions. The Housing Affordability Task Force report included 55 actionable recommendations to increase housing supply in Ontario, ranging from cutting red tape to improving zoning rules and offering more assistance to builders who want to build more homes. It's time those recommendations were implemented.

Read the full Housing Affordability Task Force report and learn more about the recommendations.

What’s at stake

A lot, for both renters and rental housing providers. Municipal and provincial governments are finding it hard to agree on effective housing policies and how to tackle the housing crisis. But, something we can all agree upon, is we must increase our housing supply in the province and find ways to help everyone thrown into a difficult position by the pandemic. There’s one thing we can all get behind. Everyone deserves an affordable, quality place to live.

 

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Why we’re in this spot.

 

A Supply Shortage

It’s a generally held position by economists that the most substantial way to lower or level-off rental prices is to increase the supply of housing. Any approach that ignores increasing supply creates a game of musical chairs–if there are not enough homes to go around, someone has to lose out.

Bureaucracy

Before shovels hit the ground, it can take years to get approval to build new rental housing in Ontario. It not only slows down the development of desperately needed housing, it also adds extra costs. Fees and delays can add up to $66,000 to the price of a new home, in a high-density building, which translates to higher rent too. 

Our Zoning Rules

Across Ontario, zoning and land use rules determine the quantity, type and size of new developments urban planners and municipalities are allowed to approve in Ontario. These rules are often a complicated mixture of provincial and municipal policies, which make it difficult to build more, higher-density housing. 

About our campaign.

Let’s Build Ontario is a campaign, which promotes innovative and equitable solutions to Ontario’s housing crisis. We need to find ways to ensure everyone has a safe affordable place to live, while maintaining the economic diversity and historical significance of our neighbourhoods; for the sake of everyone, both tenants and rental housing providers.