Ontario's Housing Affordability Task Force recommends setting a bold goal of adding 1.5 million homes over the next 10 years and update planning guidance to make this a priority. Link to report & a short 🧵 of key recommendations: #onpoli

news.ontario.ca/en/release/100… Task Force recommends: Amending the Planning Act, Provincial Policy Statement & Growth Plan to set “growth in the full spectrum of housing supply” & “intensification within existing built-up areas” of municipalities as the most important residential housing priorities. #ONpoli

I'm an urban planner. I'm concerned my profession is actively contributing to housing affordability crisis through policies that aren’t working, long processes & ideas to prevent “sprawl” that some ppl simply reject by moving vast distances for a single family home w a backyard. Planners r implementing intensification targets to stop building lower-density. But what's actually happening? Families r moving vast distances from city centre for personal choice of home type they want at $ they can afford. Is planning actually contributing to quality of life?