Mark Sutcliffe says he has a plan to keep \u0022the dream of home ownership\u0022 alive in Ottawa if elected as mayor, anchored by a pledge add 100,000 housing units to the city\u0027s residential universe over the next ten years.
“House prices go up for a lot of different reasons, but one of them is supply and demand issues. And so if we increase the supply, that’s going to reduce the upward pressure on the price of a home in Ottawa,” said Sutcliffe, in an interview following the release of his housing platform Friday.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Sutcliffe has already laid out some of the actions he would take as mayor to create a friendlier environment for housing creation, including permission to build higher or reduced development charges for residential projects in areas targeted for intensification, when at least 20 percent of the development’s units are considered by the city to be affordable.
Sutcliffe is also proposing housing-minded changes at city hall, with plans for the housing director to report directly to the city manager “to break down silos” and a strengthened approach to community consultation, something he said he would do through more virtual consultations and more outreach to invite in people who often go unheard from, such as students, those from racialized communities, working-class families and renters.
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