‘We don’t track data as well as we should,’ Ontario housing minister says

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Housing Minister Paul Calandra told a committee at the Ontario legislature he had encountered issues with the data it keeps to measure affordable housing progress.

Ford governmentHousing Minister Paul Calandra told a committee at the Ontario legislature Thursday afternoon his team had encountered issues with the data it keeps during an affordable-housing

The federal government claimed the province had failed to build almost any affordable housing units with the money and threatened to withhold funding for a plan it said wasn’t up to scratch. For its part, the Ford government said it had made huge strides, focusing particularly on renovating older affordable units.Calandra told MPPs Thursday that a lack of clear data made that intergovernmental dispute more complicated.

Calandra said his federal counterpart, Minister Sean Fraser, had raised the same concerns about how data is compiled and tracked. The Ford government is targeting 1.5 million new homes by 2031 across Ontario to tackle the housing crisis. It has set individual targets for the province’s major towns and cities, offering financial rewards to the municipalities that hit their goals.

 

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