Attainable housing program stalled despite Ontario choosing demonstration sites [Video]

Two years after the Ford government tasked one of its agencies with offering strategic advice on an attainable housing program to quickly build new units on government land, the policy remains dormant and the province says it is still working on a definition for the term.

New internal documents obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws show Ontario’s struggle to develop a still-unfinished attainable housing program dates back to at least November 2022, with help from Infrastructure Ontario.

Since January 2023, the government has also had a list of five “demonstration sites” it wants to test the program. But, despite making that key decision long ago, the province has remained tight-lipped on when work could begin and if any developers have signed up to be involved.

“Look, we’ve got to start building,” Associate Minister of Housing Vijay Thanigasalam, responsible for the attainable and modular housing files, told Global …