Everyone deserves to have a place to call home.
The fact is the construction of units isn’t keeping up with population growth. We need more than 650,000 new units right now just to house the population we have. And we’re expecting the population of Ontario to grow by a million people over the next five years. They need places to live, too.
We’ve introduced new laws, regulations and policies to make it easier to build new housing. We’re fixing barriers to building new homes while protecting health, safety, the environment, the Greenbelt and agricultural lands.
We’ve preserved rent control for existing tenants. We’ve also exempted new units from rent control which has led to a significant increase in the number of new rental units under construction. Rental housing starts were 14 per cent higher last year than the previous year, and the highest since 1992.
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