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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.
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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.
Opinion
Toronto Wanting To Build Rentals Is Admirable, But Lacking In Know-How
To build 65,000 units, the City of Toronto must start producing 11,000 units a year for the next six years. That’s a tall order, in and of itself. But to become their own builder-developer is another thing entirely.
Opinion
Our Housing Crisis Is At A Crossroads, And Cities Must Do More
To make inroads in the housing crisis plaguing our cities, we must focus squarely on systemic issues, particularly at the municipal level.
Opinion
More Can Be Done To Fix Canada's Housing Crisis, But The Feds Need To Act Now
The housing crisis has been widely discussed by the federal government, but what's needed is a dramatic increase in home-building efforts.
Opinion
If You Build It: Ontario’s Housing Crisis Needs Quick Action, Even Quicker Approvals
Ontario's home building approval processes have not improved, and urgent action is needed on this front now, not tomorrow.
Opinion
Steps Must Be Taken To Address Ontario's Shortage Of Planners
Ontario is experiencing a shortage of urban planners, but ensuring there are enough is essential to move the needle on housing.
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