The Ontario Real Estate Association and the Ontario Home Builders' Association jointly requested that the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Ryerson University study ways to encourage the larger production of affordable housing in Ontario. This is the second report resulting from our research.
Authored by Diana Petramala and David Amborski, this report examines how all three levels of governments in Ontario have been able to leverage surplus lands for housing, and lays out recommendations for further development in this area.
The examples studied in this report demonstrate how ramping up the use of public surplus lands can help ease the province's affordable housing challenge, if done appropriately.