Building places to call home

Your Official Opposition NDP plan would get the provincial government back in the business of building homes you can afford.

Unlike Doug Ford and the Conservatives, who see the housing crisis as a scapegoat to make their land speculator friends even wealthier, the Ontario NDP sees it for what it is.

That’s why Leader Marit Stiles and your Official Opposition team have a plan to get governments back in the business of building affordable housing. It’s been done in this province and country before, and we need to get all levels of government back to it.

The NDP is proposing the establishment of a new public agency – Homes Ontario – which would build at least 250,000 new affordable and non-market homes over ten years, to be operated and/or constructed by public, non-profit or co-op housing providers.

“With a housing crisis of this scale, we have to find big solutions that can help people find a home they love in the community they want to live in,” said Stiles. “The Ontario NDP are going to get the province back in the business of building housing with Homes Ontario - and we’re going to do it together, so that everyone in Ontario has a place to call home.”

Homes Ontario is the latest component in the comprehensive plan that the Ontario NDP is assembling with input from housing researchers, trades, labour, municipalities, non-profits, and other stakeholders.

Other housing solutions your Official Opposition has been calling for include real rent control, an end to exclusionary zoning, clamping down on real estate speculation and more.