Windsor facing housing criticism | CTV News [Video]

The City of Windsor and its mayor have been picked out as egregious examples of municipal housing missteps by a prominent expert in the field and author of a recent report identifying poor building performance in Ontario.

In his ‘Missing Middle’ podcast last week, Mike Moffatt, an economist and senior director of Policy and Innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute, identified the city and its mayor as a case that “bothered” him in his report that ranked Windsor 88th out of 100 of Canada’s largest cities and towns for total housing starts — offering a pointed rebuttal of Mayor Drew Dilkens’ signing of a letter to the province calling for the use of the notwithstanding clause if necessary to remove encampments.

“You’ve got the guy who is supposed to be working with the Ford government to do all these great housing reforms, most of which haven’t been done,” said Moffatt, referencing Dilkens’ position as chair of Ontario’s Housing Supply Action Plan …