According to the Report of…

According to the Report of the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force, land is not a restriction on the supply of houses. The stated goal of adding 1.5 million homes can be achieved without touching the greenbelt.

I urge the government to take the advice of its own task force and leave the Greenbelt untouched. For your reference and consideration I have included recommendations 8-11 from the report:

8. Allow “as of right” zoning up to unlimited height
and unlimited density in the immediate proximity
of individual major transit stations within two years
if municipal zoning remains insufficient to meet
provincial density targets.
9. Allow “as of right” zoning of six to 11 storeys with
no minimum parking requirements on any streets
utilized by public transit (including streets on bus
and streetcar routes).
10. Designate or rezone as mixed commercial and
residential use all land along transit corridors and
redesignate all Residential Apartment to mixed
commercial and residential zoning in Toronto.
11. Support responsible housing growth on
undeveloped land, including outside existing
municipal boundaries, by building necessary
infrastructure to support higher density
housing and complete communities and applying
the recommendations of this report to all
undeveloped land.

The future of housing lies in densification and making use of undeveloped land, not continuous urban sprawl that threatens the nature we rely on to survive.