{"id":33,"date":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/joeannsellshomes-ca\/2026\/09\/11\/ontario-housing-reform-needs-key-fixes-rescon-says\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","slug":"ontario-housing-reform-needs-key-fixes-rescon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/11\/ontario-housing-reform-needs-key-fixes-rescon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario housing reform needs key fixes, RESCON says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Ontario&#039;s housing affordability gap has widened, with home prices now over seven times annual pre-tax income in major markets. Rising construction costs, taxes, and fees\u2014now about 36% of new home costs\u2014have made many projects unviable. Six key reforms are urged: permanent HST rebates, extended development charge reductions, building code updates, streamlined approvals, revisiting federal policies, and removing land transfer taxes to improve affordability.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/ca\/mortgage-industry\/industry-trends\/ontario-housing-reform-needs-six-key-fixes-rescon-says\/589076\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario&#039;s housing affordability gap has widened, with home prices now over seven times annual pre-tax income in major markets. Rising construction costs, taxes, and fees\u2014now about 36% of new home costs\u2014have made many projects unviable. Six key reforms are urged: permanent HST rebates, extended development charge reductions, building code updates, streamlined approvals, revisiting federal policies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeannsellshomes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}