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Cost of housing in Canada
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Not most of them, but there’s one guy down the street with a vet plate and an RCR license plate frame.
CountDC
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Kind of looks like a boot if you tilt your head right. From Gov archives: The Changing Shape of Ontario: Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton
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Until senior governments get involved.
Ontario plans to impose new planning rules on municipalities to boost housing | Globalnews.ca
The government is relying on a series of changes, like reducing studies developers have to undertake and standardizing development charges, in a bid to speed up homebuilding.
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'Simply not fair' for taxpayers to fill development charge gap — GTA mayor
'These charges are one of the few tools municipalities have to fund the water, roads, and community infrastructure that new developments require'
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It's the former Carleton County and all of its municipalities lumped into one. Ontario went through a period of that; Chatham-Kent, Greater Sudbury, City of Kawartha Lakes. Not as large a population base but the same single-tier concept, and the same grumblings about from the rural folk subsidizing urban services.
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And same grumblings of rural folks issues ignored for the more urban ones.
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How many Canadians are "rural folks"?
Accordint to Statistics Canada, in 2021, there were 5,957,695 rural persons.
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As far as who subsidises who, The City of Mississauga has been trying to get a divorce from The Region of Peel for decades.
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Accordint to Statistics Canada, in 2021, there were 5,957,695 rural persons.
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As far as who subsidises who, The City of Mississauga has been trying to get a divorce from The Region of Peel for decades.
20 YEARS AGO: Mississauga made big push for Peel split; sound familiar? | INsauga
As they prepared late last year to celebrate Mississauga’s impending 50th birthday, those who run the city came closer than any of their predecessors ever did to gifting the municipality what it has wanted most for decades — political independence from the Region of Peel. In fact, for a few...
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I went into the StatsCan page and looked at the 'rural data viewer'How many Canadians are "rural folks"?
Accordint to Statistics Canada, in 2021, there were 5,957,695 rural persons.
Rural Canada Statistics
Explore data, analyses and tools focused on the vibrant rural and small town communities and regions of Canada.
As far as who subsidises who, The City of Mississauga has been trying to get a divorce from The Region of Peel for decades.
20 YEARS AGO: Mississauga made big push for Peel split; sound familiar? | INsauga
As they prepared late last year to celebrate Mississauga’s impending 50th birthday, those who run the city came closer than any of their predecessors ever did to gifting the municipality what it has wanted most for decades — political independence from the Region of Peel. In fact, for a few...
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A lot of what they include as "urban" is most definitely rural (the brown areas - zoom into the GTA). We lived in rural Durham Region and paid both township and regional taxes. We fronted on a provincial highway. Well and septic, a volunteer fire service, garbage collection was an additional line item on the taxes. I struggled to see what benefit we got from the regional portion of our taxes. In a single tier like Ottawa, it is likely less clear. The only savings would likely be a lower mil rate or lower assessment value for rural properties.
As for Brampton, its battle is mostly with Mississauga about how much they have to contribute to the region. I see at least the region has divested its road network to the member municipalities. The cost of membership might be high, but the cost of divorce is often higher.
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I guess The City of Mississauga looks at it this way,
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I swear, I can't make this stuff up... I doubt anybody in this forum actually could...
OFCOURSE house prices need to come down in order to become more affordable for the middle class...
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OFCOURSE house prices need to come down in order to become more affordable for the middle class...
Canadian government has to allow home prices to fall to make housing more affordable, experts say
Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister’s recent claim that home prices don’t need to go down in order to restore housing affordability.
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20 June, 2025
How much you need to earn to buy a home in Canada, by city,
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How much you need to earn to buy a home in Canada, by city,
Canada housing affordability | Ratehub.ca
Canada housing affordability was declining for years, but is finally improving again. Read the latest information on housing affordability.
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The drop in Ottawa makes sense. I can see a further drop in prices as the PS starts to get cut more and more. It will get harder to sell a house as the PS contracts.20 June, 2025
How much you need to earn to buy a home in Canada, by city,
Canada housing affordability | Ratehub.ca
Canada housing affordability was declining for years, but is finally improving again. Read the latest information on housing affordability.
But prices will still be better than pre pandemic as that market goes back to its consistant market appreciation over time.
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Compare that drop to Hamilton,
Ottawa at $134,020 is still pretty affordable compared to Vancouver at $237,550 and Toronto at $206,500.
Affordability looks much better in places like Fredericton at $78,200, and Regina, St. John's, and Winnipeg at $79,350.
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I'm sure that comes as a shock to quite a few people out there.
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A project to keep an eye on
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City of Waterloo finalizes land transfer to Habitat for Humanity/BUILD NOW for one of Canada’s largest affordable housing projects
In a bold and visionary step toward solving the housing crisis, the City of Waterloo has finalized the transfer of city-owned land at 2025 University Avenue East for one of the largest and most ambitious affordable housing projects in Canada. This location will become the site of a transformatio...
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Its an admirable plan but it doesn't go into details as to who will be eligible for these 1,000 units.A project to keep an eye on
City of Waterloo finalizes land transfer to Habitat for Humanity/BUILD NOW for one of Canada’s largest affordable housing projects
In a bold and visionary step toward solving the housing crisis, the City of Waterloo has finalized the transfer of city-owned land at 2025 University Avenue East for one of the largest and most ambitious affordable housing projects in Canada. This location will become the site of a transformatio...
- max income threshold?
- geared to income?
- are you able to sell the home at fair market value after 1yr, 3yrs, 10yrs?
- can you only sell the home to another 'affordable housing recipient?
- what will be the value of the home sold, X times the max income threshold?
- doesn't say what form these 1,000 unit will be, condos, townhouses, fourplexes, six-plexes?
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Yup, a lot of mechanics still to be determined/ publicized.
Like I said will be interesting to track, see if they can successfully take some lessons learned from the BC scandal and thread the needle to deliver a functional affordable community without it becoming "the projects"
Given the density I think it's going to be a lot of low to midrise condos/apartments- maybe with some stacked townhomes thrown in.
I think the most "exciting" part of the project was that they're trying to go affordable while still yielding viable family sized spaces.
Interesting comparisons.
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Interesting property tax comparisons,
Halifax property tax rate % 1.12
Toronto property tax rate % 0.72
Jan 27, 2025
Homebuyer’s Guide to 2025 Property Taxes in Canada- nesto.ca
Explore Canada's highest and lowest property tax rates by municipality and province. Learn how they influence homeownership costs in 2025.
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