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Mike Moffatt's analysis of what's happened to housing affordability is not for the faint of heart. It's about three times more expensive to own in Ontario than it was 20 years ago.
- Patrick Flannery, editor
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Northbridge Insurance has announced the launch of its construction bursary program in Ontario, in partnership with George Brown College. Following the success of its bursary program in Atlantic Canada, this initiative will continue to support students pursuing careers in the skilled trades, helping to address the ongoing labour shortage in the construction industry.
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Moncton, N.B., city council has amended its planning bylaws to allow up to four dwelling units in structure on a residential lot, according to CBC reports. It joins St. John, Fredericton, Halifax, St. John's and Summerside, P.E.I., in making changes to allow more units per lot. The changes come in response to Ottawa's Housing Accelerator Fund, which matches funds municipalities spend on housing infrastructure subject to certain conditions including densification.
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Over three-quarters (76%) of small to medium business owners are planning to exit their business in the coming decade according to 2023 research by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). But they face obstacles, with the most common being finding a suitable buyer (54% of owners struggle with this). Other challenges include valuating their business or getting the business to run well without their input, otherwise known as working “on” and not “in” the business.
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The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) is looking forward to continuing to work with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his government to speed up the homebuilding process and, in particular, lower costly development fees that are stymieing the building of new homes.
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The Missing Middle Initiative has been sounding the alarm about the state of homebuilding in Ontario for months now and bringing the data to back it up. The Ontario Home Builders Association recently hosted a webinar where MMI host Mike Moffat laid it all out and took viewer questions. Warning: content may cause a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach.
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The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) has released a new policy report titled Building More, Building Faster outlining the importance of embracing factory-built homes as a key part of the solution to address Ontario’s ongoing housing supply and affordability crisis. This approach would save time and money during construction, without compromising quality or neighbourhood aesthetics, it says.
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Missing Middle Initiative has analyzed the federal Conservative and Liberal housing platforms ahead of our April 28 election and come up with six and 10 “thoughts,” respectively, about each of them.
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Luis has to decide if he's going to keep shuttling back and forth across the border the way he used to. Solve Luis' dilemma for a chance to win a DeWalt prize!
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High-profile wildfires doing substantial property damage to urban areas in B.C. and Alberta have spurred NRCan to look at creating Canadian building standards for wildfire resistance. The consultation process has just begun, but it seems likely that some day soon we may see new codes requiring resistant windows, doors and other components in wildfire-prone areas. What might these rules look like? How do we determine if a product is sufficiently resistant to external fires? And what is the science behind making frames and glass that resists fire and prevents heat transfer to the home interior? Robin Urquhart has worked on ...
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The difficulty, expense and delay in getting projects approved has been identified as one of the big reasons Ontario is nowhere near its homebuilding goals and not likely to be any time soon. Enter Arash Shahi and his non-profit One Ontario initiative to offer a database of municipal zoning bylaws and regulations that shows where building can happen and whether your project qualifies. One Ontario has the data and the software tools – what it needs now is provincial backing to legitimize regional planning authorities using it. Shahi explains what One Ontario is, what information it can provide and how it could be part of the path forward to getting this province out of its homebuilding logjam.
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Gil Yaron of Light House is spearheading the launch of the Building Materials Exchange on Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland, B.C., with plans to expand. It’s a website where members can post excess materials from inventory or jobsites and offer them for sale or free to whomever wants them. The important wrinkle is the business-to-business nature of the site, allowing contractors to deal with other contractors and not so much the general public.
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