A Home for Everyone

No matter who you are, where you live, or how you buy or sell a home, you must be able to trust that the provincial government will protect you against bad actors. Ontario’s REALTORS® agree, and are calling on the next Government of Ontario to improve consumer confidence in real estate by:

• Improving the efficiency of the Landlord Tenant Board (LTB)
• Mandating equal treatment for diverse families under the Condominium Act
• Eliminating auctioneer loophole in Ontario real estate, and
• Implementing a more practical education for Ontario REALTORS®

The Ontario Government has set an ambitious goal of adding 1.5 million homes to the province’s housing stock by 2031. This goal reflects the urgent need to solve Ontario’s housing affordability crisis – one ultimately driven by too few homes, for too many people. While notable progress has been made, more can and must be done to ensure Ontarians have the homes they need today, and in the future. We can do this by:

• Ending exclusionary zoning across Ontario by legalizing fourplexes as-of-right
• Increasing density near transit through building conversions, and
• Helping promote and scale innovative approaches to development

Ontarians from every corner of the province are feeling the pinch from the rising cost of living, inflation, and other economic challenges the country is facing. A December 2024 survey conducted by Abacus Data, on behalf of OREA, found that despite a steady desire to own a home, 1 in 4 aspiring homeowners have given up on that dream, calling the market “unaffordable” and “overpriced”. Ontario must embrace pro-affordability solutions that will help create new generations of homeowners across the province:

• Implementing a condoization framework for multiplexes
• Limiting municipal development charges, and
• Funding pilot programs that create new pathways to homeownership