RICHMOND HILL, Ont. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will not introduce legislation that would automatically allow fourplex homes to be built across the province by overriding any prohibitions municipalities had in place.
Ford says such legislation would be a massive mistake.
He says he is focused on building single-family homes and townhomes.
Housing Minister Paul Calandra has said he will be coming out soon with "aggressive" legislation in an effort to reach the government's goal of building 1.5 million homes by 2031.
The premier's office says municipalities can decide for themselves if they'd like to build fourplexes in their communities.
The province's housing affordability task force had recommended legislation that would automatically allow residential buildings with four units to be built anywhere in the province.
The Ontario Liberals unveiled new housing legislation on Tuesday to legalize gentle density around the province in an attempt to establish their position on the issue ahead of the Progressive Conservatives' next major housing bill.
Newly minted Liberal housing critic Adil Shamji’s bill, the BUILD Ontario Act, would legalize four-unit, four-storey buildings across Ontario and introduce new provincewide standards to prevent municipalities from creatively thwarting multiplexes.
— With files from Aidan Chamandy, The Trillium
