Ontario home builders urge faster approvals, harmonized green building standards
But it’s a target that current progress suggests may be difficult to reach. In 2022, the first full year of the 10-year period, just over 96,000 new homes were built.
“Despite major global and national economic challenges, including rising inflation, interest rates and labour costs, in 2022 Ontario saw the second highest number of housing starts since 1988,” Victoria Podbielski wrote in a statement. 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 upcoming 2023-24 provincial budget will indicate if the Ontario government is going to put relatively narrow private interests ahead of the many broad public interests that governments are responsible for managing.” Almost one quarter of the current construction labour force in the Greater Toronto Area is set to retire by 2030, RESCON said.
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