Fixing the housing affordability crisis? It’s the density, stupid

In Ontario, the Ford government’s long-brewing housing plan fails to adequately address the single most important issue: density.

It will take a great deal more concentrated effort on the part of the federal government, the provinces, and municipalities to reverse the urban sprawl trend, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 2, 2024

OTTAWA—Asked a couple of months ago about giving developers in Ontario the right to build fourplexes on one residential lot, Premier Doug Ford said homeowners wouldn’t tolerate such a policy.

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