If the landlord didn’t remit the tax the tenant paid through his rent, he stole from the tenant.

The tenant’s on the hook for getting robbed?

I'm beginning to think we might actually solve this housing crisis. #cdnpoli

Hey #Mississauga , don’t forget to tune in tomorrow to Beyond the Ballot on @Sauga960AM with myself and Ryan Gurcharn.

We’ll be taking a deep dive into housing issues in Mississauga with Alex Beheshti and Kelly Singh from More Homes Mississauga. We all agree that we need to build more…

Just because an organization with a nice sounding title says this doesn't make it true. Also saying this doesn't make you morally superior or better on the issue of getting people it housed, in fact this is absolutely discrediting but OK cool that you said it 🫡

I finally got through the new federal housing plan document and, overall, it's a substantive policy package with many smart policy choices (and a few duds). It generally tells an accurate narrative of housing crisis and the tools we need to use to fix it.

And if you read financial statements of these company's that they're legally obligated to make to investors, they all say that the lack of housing supply is the reason that this sort of investment is attractive.

This a symptom of a too few homes, they're literally saying so.

Of COURSE the most conservative and reactionary premier in Canada comes out with the NIMBY bill.

Can we stop pretending it’s progressive to ban apartments now?

Some folks are pissed that the Federal Liberals moved substantively on housing after 9 years in office.

Would you rather they didn’t?

The Ontario PCs have been in office for 6. And they’re not moving substantively.

I’d applaud them too if they did!

If Ontario matched the housing ambitions of the Feds, this country would be at the beginning of the end of its housing crisis.

The unwillingness of Doug Ford to embrace a generational consensus moment on the biggest issue facing the country is hugely problematic!

Would be interesting to see how sentiment compares between the federal liberal housing plan and the provinical tories. Since I don't know how the scrape text from websites, let's do a poll!

Which housing plan is more bold?

Would be interesting to see how sentiment compares between the federal liberal housing plan and the provinical tories. Since I don't know how the scrape text from websites, let's do a poll!

Which housing plan is more bold?

jeez I log off for part of the morning, come back, and the Liberals have announced one of the most substantial pro-rental tax changes in a year that's already had several

I hope this means they will go back to collecting completions outside of CMAs.

Also pay Jens von Bergmann for his platform that provides an API to CMHC data.

WOW... this one is *huge* (and nerdy). The federal government is bringing back a 10% Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance for purpose-built rentals.

This was one of the key recommendations of both the National Housing Accord and Blueprint for More and Better Housing.

QC using development charges almost not at all drives me a little batty if I dwell on it too long

ON policymakers (both muni and prov) will intone 'growth pays for growth' like it's a law of the universe or a commandment and... it's just a choice, and a dubious one at that

I'll do a longer blog post about this later. Was playing around with some numbers. I find for most Ontario cities, the provincial housing targets aren't sufficient to keep up with population growth, with the odd exception of Ottawa, where the target is very aggressive.

If you're not willing to endure the political cost of municipal wailing OR the fiscal cost of making munis whole then yeah, development charges end up looking pretty good from the Premier's Office.

However, this needed to be offset by opening up more infill land for development. It needed to be offset by legalizing density. We didn't do that part of it.

So instead of more people = more places to build, we did more people and fewer places to build.