TORONTO — Ontario should speed up new housing approvals, increase skilled trade immigration, and “rein in” municipalities introducing varying green building…
The province is sifting through a mountain of requests for funding and policy changes as it prepares the budget, and as Premier Doug Ford’s development-eager government looks for ways to boost housing supply, proposals from groups like the Residential Construction Council of Ontario could point to some next steps.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
A spokesperson for Clark noted that the 96,000 new homes is 30 per cent higher than the annual average for the past 20 years. Some municipalities are “mandating their own unique technical building requirements as they see fit” and not conforming with Ontario and national building codes, RESCON wrote in its budget submission.
“The development industry is calling for changes that benefit the development industry,” Best wrote in a statement.Article content
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