“Ontario is making it easier to buy a home,” declares the headline on the news release from Premier Doug Ford’s government about its new housing plan, unveiled this week.
Anyone who reads through the plan would be justified in wondering how its tweaks to city planning timelines and proposed changes to the building code will actually make it any easier to buy in a real estate market that is basically bonkers.
The unaffordability of housing in Ontario right now is one of the most pressing issues facing the province. The average home price has skyrocketed 44 per cent in two years. Costs