There are many people in Canada that live in housing that does not meet basic standards, struggle with rent and other housing costs while others do not have a place to live at all.
Housing affordability
- Increase city-led rapid housing projects and ensure we reach our goals to create affordable housing units that satisfies demand
- Work with government partners to redefine affordable housing and expand it to include geared-to-income housing
- Incentivise developers to include more affordable units in their new projects
- More affordable and family-sized units in new projects
Protections for Tenants
- Work with government partners to apply annual rent controls on all new units and to ensure rental housing quality and inspections
- Work to bring RentSafe program to the city
Adding to the supply
- Incentivise small and mid-rise infill housing projects
- Missing middle housing
- Reduce development charges for purpose built rentals
- Lift single-family exclusionary zoning and allow low-rise du/tri/quadplex housing
- Missing middle housing
- Develop inclusionary zoning
- Require a percentage of all new builds to be affordable
- Incentivise conversion of appropriate vacant commercial properties to residential units
- Incentivise and facilitate development of walkable communities with storefront shops, community services and food markets/grocery stores
- Push vacant residential properties back into the supply
- Disincentivize conversion of existing multi-unit housing back into single-family housing
- More co-operative housing
- Commit a portion of space within London’s urban growth boundary away from traditional sized lots for smaller lots geared for multiple tiny homes
