Presentation: Four Housing Policy Trends Worth Watching in 2025
What we're watching this year.
From time to time, members of the MMI team give presentations on housing and other issues related to young, urban, middle-class Canadians. And, inevitably, after these presentations we’re asked if copies of the slides are available.
Our policy, going forward, is to share our presentation slides with whoever wants them. This post will be the first, we hope, of many where we make presentation slides available.
On January 23, 2025, MMI Founding Director Mike Moffatt made a presentation at the RESCON Annual General Meeting, highlighting four big Ontario-related housing policy trends/debates that he is watching this year. Those four are as follows:
GST and PST rebates on new housing.
“Removing the Gatekeepers.” What does that entail, and what mechanisms are governments thinking of using to make that happen.
Sky-high development taxes. Many municipalities have introduced large increases in development charges over the last year, though Burlington and Vaughan have lowered theirs.
Attracting capital. Canada needs roughly $2 trillion in capital in a decade to meet the federal government’s housing ambitions. Where will it come from?
Below are a copy of the slides, in PDF format. Please excuse the PLACE Centre branding - we’re still working on developing an MMI Powerpoint template.
