The city of Ottawa will not fulfill its pledge to issue 15,100 building permits a year unless there are "supportive economic conditions" and supports from other stakeholders, according to city staff.

The city of Ottawa will not fulfill its pledge to issue 15,100 building permits a year unless there are “supportive economic conditions” and supports from other stakeholders, according to city staff.

Earlier this year, council endorsed a ‘municipal housing pledge,’ with strategies to encourage construction of 151,000 new homes across Ottawa by 2031. The Ontario government assigned Ottawa its target as part of a provincial plan to support construction of 1.5 million new homes.

A new report for the city of Ottawa says the city granted land use permissions and development applications for 16,237 new dwellings in the first six months of the year, and issued building permits for 4,514 net new dwellings.

Staff say while Ottawa is “fulfilling its role” to the annual 15,100 target by “providing ample opportunities to issue building permits” for new homes, the city was only 30 per cent to its target for issuing building permits through the January to June period.

  • BedSharkPalOP
    81·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, that’s not what I want to hear given the severity of the current housing crisis.

    It couldn’t be more obvious to me that the Feds need to step in and remove the profit motive from development to build more housing ASAP.

    • joshhsoj1902
      1·
      1 year ago

      The province could also step in… setting a target of 1.5 million homes doesn’t really accomplish anything.

      Sure the feds could do something, but them stepping in would mainly be to correct the failings of the provincial government.

      • BedSharkPalOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        In an ideal world, yes. I’m just not holding out on Dougie doing anything useful sadly.

        • joshhsoj1902
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think so either, but by not mentioning them in your post you’re renfprcing the misleading narrative that the problems are solely cased by the feds.

          Realistic a lot of the issues we have now are a result of poor planning for the provinces and their municipalities. The feds can help clean it up, but we can’t constantly ignore that the provinces got us into this mess and aren’t trying to actually solve it (and certainly don’t seem willing to work with the feds on a solution)