As far as housing affordability goes, you just need to look at Ford and what he is doing with the Green Belt to get a sense of what PeePee's playboook can be like.
Regional (government) representatives in the Green Belt area is saying large chunks of the land taken off the Green Belt for development is not even equipped with the basic necessary infrastructure (think water, sewage, power, etc.) to support any sort of development. To actually get those large swathes of land to provide livable space is gonna take some 20 - 25 years of work to do. Meanwhile, the AG's report already indicates Ontario has other available land that is readily available for development to meet Ontario's needs for housing a growing population.
But Ford keeps harping on how despite everything was done wrong with the Green Belt project, they are doing it because people need housing.
It is all a blatant lie, but some people are just lapping it up.
Going back to PeePee, I suspect he is gonna borrow a page from Ford by just writing off a bunch of requirements and restrictions on how and where housing can be built. Environment asssesment? Skim through it. Open and transparent process? What is that? (This is exactly what the Ford gov did and got called out for it now.)
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PP says he wants to build more housing by cutting out the 'gatekeepers' which i guess means permitting and that sort of thing. is this even the real issue to why our supply is low?
if my memory serves me right, housing was doing just fine until the pandemic came along. lumber skyrocketed as well as other building supplies, container costs were through the roof and shipping delays were super long. labour shortage happened, then interest rates went up so high nobody wanted to start any new projects.
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I would say that prior to the pandemic and all the chaos that it has caused, housing was already becoming unaffordable. IIRC, the previous high point was somewhere around 2017 - 2018, so that was before COVID, supply chain chaos, labour shortage, interest rate hike, Ukraine War and everything else. It's just that the recent few years really went full on insane.