Home construction and supply
Liberal
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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
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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
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Remove the Ontario Land Transfer Tax for first-time homebuyers, seniors downsizing, and non-profit homebuilders
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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
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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
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Create a catalogue of pre-approved housing designs
PC
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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
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Standardise development study requirements across the province
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Invest $50M to support more factory-built homes and innovative home-building technology
"Investing $50 million to support more factory-built homes and innovative home-building technology that will help get thousands of new homes built faster in Ontario using new and more efficient technologies" — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19
ONDP
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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
"We will update zoning and planning rules to make it easier and cheaper to build all types of new homes, including legalizing more affordable options like semis, townhomes and fourplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrises near transit as-of-right." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
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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
"We will get Ontario back to building with Homes Ontario, the largest homebuilding program in generations. Homes Ontario will use grants, low-cost public financing, public land, fast-tracked approvals and other supports to enable the construction, acquisition and repair of at least 300,000 permanently affordable homes." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
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Create thousands of new jobs in residential construction, and keep skilled labour employed during market slowdowns
"Homes Ontario will help create thousands of new jobs in residential construction, while keeping skilled labour employed in periods of market slowdown." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
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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