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Housing & Homelessness

Public and affordable housing platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Public and affordable housing.

ONDP
  • Create 60,000 new supportive housing units

    "Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of our broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy

    "We will work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy to deliver affordable, culturally-appropriate housing." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Enable the purchase of existing privately-owned rental units, to be converted to permanently affordable public, non-profit, or co-op housing

    "We will enable the purchase of existing privately-owned rental units, to be converted to permanently affordable public, non-profit or co-op housing, like Toronto’s Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition (MURA) Program and UK’s Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP)." — 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

    "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

  • Complete renovations and repairs on existing affordable rentals

    "We will protect the existing supply of affordable rentals, including completing renovations and repairs." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Liberal policies on Public and affordable housing.

Green
  • Work with non-profits to build 250,000 new affordable non-profit and co-op homes
  • Reinstate the brownfield remediation fund to support municipalities to safely build affordable housing on previous industrial sites

    "Reinstate the provincial brownfield re- mediation fund to support municipalities to safely build affordable housing on previously industrial sites" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Work with all levels of government to include affordable housing developments above transit stations and on station surface parking lots

    "Work with all levels of government to include affordable housing developments above transit stations and on transit station surface parking lots" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Work with Indigenous housing organisations to develop and fully-fund 22,000 for-Indigenous, by-Indigenous deeply affordable homes
  • Prioritise and speed up approval processes for projects led by or with non-profit housing providers, and provide low-interest loans for them

    "Prioritise and speed up the development approval processes for projects led by or in partnership with non-profit housing providers, and provide low-interest loans via a new revolving fund" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Work with the federal government to create a capital repair programme to ensure affordable homes stay well-maintained

    "Renew 305,000 community housing units and create a new capital repair program, in partnership with the federal government, to ensure homes stay well maintained" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Work with non-profits to build 60,000 permanent supportive homes with guaranteed funding for mental health, addictions, and other supports
  • Lease all public land suitable for housing to non-profits, co-ops, and community land trusts for permanently affordable housing at no cost
  • Remove HST on affordable housing units delivered by non-profits
  • Give non-profits support and capital to purchase market rental buildings, and introduce preemptive right-to-buy for non-profits

    "Give non-profit housing providers the support and access to capital needed to purchase market rental buildings to maintain affordability in perpetuity and introduce pre-emptive right-to- buy for non-profits" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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