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Ottawa is facing a housing crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prices skyrocketed during the global pandemic, and it’s less affordable than ever to buy a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years ago, the average home price in Ottawa was $370,000. This year, it’s over $600,000!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Municipal governments are mostly to blame for this problem.<\/strong> Municipal zoning laws make it very difficult to build more housing. Regulation and red tape have caused the cost of housing to skyrocket. Not-in-my-back-yard campaigns have stopped local politicians from making changes to improve the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result: we build less homes. We build more expensive homes. Housing costs go up. People move out of the city and commute farther. Millennials, seniors, and the less fortunate can\u2019t afford to rent, let alone buy, a place to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City of Ottawa is debating a new Official Plan \u2014 a great opportunity to fix our housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the plan does nothing to make housing more affordable in Ottawa.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest problem Ottawa faces is a lack of housing supply. There simply are not enough homes to buy or apartments to rent, so we pay enormous prices and compete in bidding wars with dozens of offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past five years, Ottawa has dropped from 421 homes per 1000 people to 403 homes per 1000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among G7 countries, the average is 471 homes per 1000 people. That means Ottawa would have to build 72,000 new homes today if we wanted to be average!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Official Plan says by 2046, we can get back to 419 homes per 1000 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means our City Planners want to take 25 years to undo the damage caused in the last five years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is not good enough! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, the City of Ottawa population projections differ from provincial projections by nearly 100,000 people. Their current target for housing could be off by 40,000 homes or more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Official Plan is going to make our housing crisis worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot make housing affordable with this steady-as-we-go response to our housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need real meaningful change so that we can make housing affordable. We need to amend our Official Plan to include more housing, so that young people can buy their first homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa must be a world-class city for everyone \u2014 not just the super wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please add your name and send your local city councillor a message: let’s fix the Official Plan and Make Housing Affordable!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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