141,480 Approved Homes Aren’t Being Built. Stop Pricing Ontario Land on the Approval.
CMHC’s July figures show the approved-but-unstarted backlog rising while actual urban starts fell 19% year over year. Toronto’s starts are at their lowest level since 2009 — below Calgary, Montréal and Vancouver for the first time. Urban Land Group · September 4, 2026 CMHC reported that the national annualized rate of housing starts fell 5% […]
Ontario Just Put a Price on a Development Charge and It Lands on Land Value
Hamilton is being paid $572 million to eliminate residential development charges for three years. Vaughan gets $697.2 million to halve them. The saving is real — the question is who ends up with it. Urban Land Group · September 1, 2026 On August 27, 2026 the Governments of Canada and Ontario announced the first agreements […]
Hamilton’s Urban Boundary Has Now Been Set Four Times in Five Years
The Ontario Land Tribunal has ordered at least 1,600 hectares added. The province closed this door in 2023 and reopened it in 2024 — and the forecast underneath the whole exercise moved by 50,000 people last year. Urban Land Group · August 24, 2026 On August 17, 2026 the Ontario Land Tribunal ordered the City […]
One Code of Conduct for 444 Municipalities, Arriving the Day the New Council Term Starts
Ontario is consulting on regulations that would replace every local municipal code of conduct with a single provincial one. They are proposed to take effect November 15, 2026, three weeks after the municipal election. Urban Land Group · August 20, 2026 On August 18, 2026, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing posted proposed regulations […]