{"id":24,"date":"2026-09-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/realtyprime-ca\/2026\/09\/26\/expert-priorities-that-should-guide-ontarios-housing-reform\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:00:00","slug":"expert-priorities-that-should-guide-ontarios-housing-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/26\/expert-priorities-that-should-guide-ontarios-housing-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert: Priorities That Should Guide Ontario&#8217;s Housing Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Having spent more than two decades immersed in Ontario\u2019s construction and development landscape, I\u2019ve seen firsthand the mounting challenge of housing affordability\u2014where home prices now exceed seven times the average annual income. This isn\u2019t just a statistic; it\u2019s a daily reality for families trying to secure a place to call home. The burden of high taxes, fees, and complex regulations continues to drive up costs, making quality housing less accessible across the province. Meaningful reforms are urgently needed: tax relief, more efficient approval processes, modernized building codes, and reconsidering land transfer taxes all stand out as priorities. As a family-led real estate team, we believe effective, long-term solutions require both expertise and a commitment to managing assets for the next generation. Ontario\u2019s future depends on getting this right\u2014for builders, homeowners, and communities alike.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/storeys.com\/top-priorities-ontario-housing-reform\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent more than two decades immersed in Ontario\u2019s construction and development landscape, I\u2019ve seen firsthand the mounting challenge of housing affordability\u2014where home prices now exceed seven times the average annual income. This isn\u2019t just a statistic; it\u2019s a daily reality for families trying to secure a place to call home. The burden of high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtyprime.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}