Real Insights by Richard Lyall
Richard Lyall
Richard Lyall is president of RESCON, the Residential Construction Council of Ontario. He has represented Ontario's building industry since 1991. To contact him, reach out to media@rescon.com.
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It's Time For Ontario To Get On The Offsite Construction Bandwagon
With 5.8 million new homes needed in Canada by 2031, and the homebuilding sector increasingly under the gun to produce more units, it is time to look towards offsite construction, argues RESCON President Richard Lyall.
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"A Recipe For Disaster": Bureaucracy, Taxes Continue To Add To Housing Crisis
While there has been a cultural shift and recognition by all levels of government that the problem is very real, taxes, fees, and levies have pushed the cost of housing to astronomical heights.
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Taxes, Fees, And Levies Keep The Cost Of Homebuilding From Adding Up
Richard Lyall, president of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON), breaks down the cost of doing business when it comes to building new homes in the province, and the math is hard to swallow.
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"The Only Way Forward": Regulatory Hurdles Must Be Removed On New Housing
RESCON CEO Richard Lyall argues that a combination of factors have contributed to create a dysfunctional housing market that's made it increasingly difficult to build new homes people can afford.
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Municipalities Going Off 'Green' Script Is The Last Thing The Housing Crisis Needs
Residential builders already have to overcome numerous obstacles just to get shovels in the ground, and municipalities that push the envelope with their own green building standards will only make it even more difficult to meet housing targets.
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Just When We Need To Be Leaders In New Home Building, Canada Continues To Fall Behind
Richard Lyall, president of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON), highlights the lowlights of Canada's ongoing home building crisis.
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Canada Needs 160K New Construction Workers – Are High School Students The Answer?
Canada’s residential construction industry is facing an acute shortage of skilled trades in the next decade, but Ontario has a plan – The Focused Apprenticeship Skills Training program, which will allow Grade 11 and 12 students to participate in apprenticeship learning through co-operative education credits while completing high school.
Insiders
Lack Of Affordable Housing Is Undermining The Social Fabric Of Society
The social value cost attributed to housing unaffordability in the GTA is about 1.75 times greater than that of cancer in the GTA, according to a new study. Moreover, the social value cost related to housing unaffordability aligns closely with the costs associated with diabetes and represents 76% of the social value cost of heart disease, further emphasizing its impact.
Opinion
Canada's Housing Supply Has Been Choked And Taxed To Death
Red tape and bureaucracy continue to plague our housing system. The development approvals process is too slow and needs to be digitized and streamlined.
Opinion
Why Is New Home Construction Down? Simple, It’s Too Expensive For Builders And Buyers
There are many reasons for the dire situation. Interest rate hikes, rising construction and labour costs, hefty taxes, fees, levies, and exorbitant municipal development charges are taking a toll.
Opinion
Overly Restrictive Construction Regulations Are Hurting Ontario Homebuilding
It's a tricky balancing act, but cities like Toronto need to find ways to accelerate the building of homes, not make it more cumbersome with restrictive noise bylaws.
Opinion
Op-Ed: Greener Building Codes With No Time To Adapt A Disaster For Industry
While it is admirable that municipalities have recognized our collective climate emergency, it is ludicrous to expect the residential construction industry to pivot overnight.
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