RELATED: The Ford government has officially started counting long-term care beds and basement units toward its overall goal of building 1.5 million homes by 2031, significantly boosting its housing supply numbers. – Feb 23, 2024will table legislation that would allow developers and homeowners to build fourplexes across the province, Global News has learned, even as the Ford government actively considers how to handle the policy.
The report found greenlighting four-unit buildings on a single residential lot as of right would “allow more kinds of housing that are accessible” to a wider range of people.The policy is one the Ford government has not implemented, even as it struggles to meet its goal of 1.5 million new homes by 2031.
“Despite fourplexes being one of the core policy recommendations outlined in the government’s own Housing Affordability Task Force, the Ford government has done nothing but delay and dither on housing,” Crombie stated in an advance copy of a speech provided to Global News. The Liberals aren’t the first party to try and force the Ford government to accept the policy recommendation.