Ontario passes housing bill despite criticism from municipalities over funding
The Ontario government has passed housing legislation that overrides some municipal zoning laws and eliminates some development fees in an effort to follow through on the province’s goal of building 1.5 million homes.
This is worth a little discussion. Not necessicarily the bill itself but the fact that if anything is going to change, it's going to have to come from the provinces. Muncilipalities are not motivated to make changes.
BC is looking at the possibility of stepping on it's municipalities and forcing them to approve more housing more quickly as well.
Naturally the municipalities don't like that - but they've had years to streamline their proecsses and get their acts together and they just haven't. At this point i'll take a provincial plan that's got a few warts over no plan when it comes to more housing.
