Toronto – Ontario’s final tally for housing in 2024 is well, what is necessary to achieve the goal of building 1.5 million houses of Premier Doug Ford, even the government is combining the dom of the university with various new categories.
The government recently updated its housing tracker for the first time in eight months, and it offers another glimpse in the struggles of home construction.
The total housing from the government’s calculation begins for 2024, 94,753. This includes 73,462 traditional housing starts, 14,381 additional residential units, 2,278 long-term care beds, 2,807 post-medical student housing beds, and 1,825 retirement home suits.
But to meet the target of 1.5 million houses built in 10 years by 2031, Ontario must be added to 125,000 homes last year, with at least 150,000 and next 175,000 this year. The province met its 110,000 target for 2023 after counting long -term care beds.
A spokesperson of Housing Minister Rob Flack said that the government has seen progress through various funds, which has established it to help in building a house.
Alexandra Sanita wrote in a statement, “Our government is accelerating housing development, investing in infrastructure, and giving municipalities to equipment that they need to build more houses.” He also said that 9,125 rental houses started.
But this year is not yet shaped well, as exposed by the province’s financial accountability officer, who stated earlier this year that the first quarter of 2025 was at the lowest level since 2009.
It is a reality that the builders are looking at the ground, the Dave Wilks, the president of the building industry and the Land Development Association and the CEO said.
House sales, a major indicator of housing begins, low and construction of the construction industry that have already started, who can see the workforce of up to 40 percent, they said.
Wilks said, “The conditions in the market right now really reflect the recession that the industry saw in the early 1990s, so it is the worst that it has probably lived in 35 years.”
He said that challenges are many more complex, including high costs and low consumer confidence for construction. To help, the federal government can temporarily expand the GST/HST new housing exemption, and can pull various levars to reduce all the level development charges of the government, said Wilks.
Fees builders are used by municipalities to fund housing infrastructure such as water and sewer lines, but the builders say that the cost adds too much to the price of a new house for the buyer, and they will be demanded and constructed from cutting.
Over the years, the Provincial Government has established various dollars of various funds to help in the construction of the house, including the money to pointing to the housing-capable infrastructure for the municipalities.
Ontario has tied one of them, building rapid funds, for the target for housing, the government has entrusted 50 municipalities, cities get cash if they meet at least 80 percent of their targets.
The new updated housing tracker data shows that last year, only 23 of them hit the threshold that was below 32 last year.
Green party leader Mike Shreenar said that the best way the provincial government could prevent housing crisis, which will be to enable more soft density in the current neighborhood, where the infrastructure already exists. Ford has automatically refused to allow Charplexes across the province, which is a priority to leave the zoning decisions to individual municipalities.
Schreiner stated that Ontario may standardize the rules for modular housing and fund more economical, non-profit, co-up and social housing.
“The Ford government is presiding over the worst housing crisis in Ontario history, and is the worst housing number in Canada, and they are doing everything they cannot be transparent and honest with the people of Ontario about the range of crisis,” he said.
“But the reality is whether we are feeling it in our day-to-day life, because we have a whole generation of young people who are wondering if they will ever be the owner of the house.”
This report of Canadian Press was first published on August 11, 2025.
Elison Jones, Canadian Press
