"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Build 2 million homes in a variety of innovative forms within urban bound- aries over the next 10 years" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Update provincial planning laws to prezone for missing middle and mid- rise housing ranging from 6-11 storeys on transit corridors and major streets in large urban centres with populations over 100,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Require municipalities to permit developments with the use of pre-approved building designs (starter home designs to allow for more affordable development)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Identify and plan for a mix of unit sizes (e.g. one-bedroom, two-bed-room) and housing types (e.g. multi-unit houses, low-rise developments) needed and in what quantity, based on demographic and immigration projections" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Make homes affordable for home-buyers by removing development charges on homes, condos and apartment units built under 2,000 sq ft with-in urban boundaries. Implement an Affordable Community Fund to reimburse municipalities for lost revenue" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Allow single family dwellings to be divided into multiple condominium units to create more attainable home ownership opportunities within exist- ing neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase financial and legal supports for small-scale builders of missing middle and mid-rise infill homes. Offer low-cost, long-term fixed-rate financing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Set uniform provincial standards for urban design and remove onerous rules around floor space index, setbacks, and angular planes that are barriers to building missing middle and midrise housing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Update building codes and land use planning laws, financial tools, tax powers, and funding programs to incentivise the use of faster, lower-cost, and labour-efficient construction methods and sustainable materials like mass timber, modular factory built homes, etc" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Incentivise and remove barriers to the construction of housing on commercial properties, such as abandoned plazas and warehouses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Change planning laws to ensure vari- ous building types can be built along main streets, transit stations and cor- ridors, public lands, surplus commer- cial lands, and residential neighbour- hoods to ensure there is a liveable mix of housing in all neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Update the Planning Act, Provincial Planning Statement and other applicable laws and regulations to expand zoning permissions to allow for fourplexes and four storeys as-of-right within existing urban boundaries and sixplexes in cities with populations over 500,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Explore innovative approaches to planning consultation that ensure processes are genuinely inclusive and meaningfully engage all citizens both in-person and online. For example, engaging people in community locations that they frequent such as coffee shops or transit stops, or providing childcare to ensure broader community participation" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Encourage municipalities to meaningfully engage with prospective residents, not only current residents, when consulting on new developments to ensure all voices are heard during the planning process" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Reverse the Ford government’s changes to the Provincial Planning Statement that encourage sprawl and instead prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Work collaboratively with municipalities on a province-wide “Yes, in My Backyard” initiative to raise awareness of the benefits of building more housing within existing neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Require minimum housing densities at transit stations and along transit corridors as a requirement in transit funding agreements between the province and municipalities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22