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Housing study: Reported inventories overstate supply of “shovel ready lots” – use it or lose it policies must be informed by facts

Toronto, February 22, 2024 – A new study by Keleher Planning & Economic Consulting Inc. (KPEC), commissioned for the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) and the Ontario Home Builders’ Association (OHBA), has identified that…

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Can’t build housing in the city, can’t build housing at the edge of the city — Ontario has no coherent plan to increase housing supply 

Greater Toronto Area, December 14, 2023 – The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) slammed the province’s approval of City of Toronto Official Plan Amendment (OPA) 591 yesterday as yet another example of how the…

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Minister Freeland’s inaction jeopardizes 128,000 new units of purpose-built rental housing supply coast to coast

Greater Toronto Area, November 28, 2023 – By not extending the new HST exemption to purpose-built rental units under construction, Minister Freeland is jeopardizing 128,000 units of new purpose-built rental (PBR) housing (of which more than…

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