{"id":39,"date":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/buysellmuskoka-ca\/2026\/10\/11\/ontarios-path-to-1-5m-homes-bold-change-needed\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","slug":"ontarios-path-to-1-5m-homes-bold-change-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/11\/ontarios-path-to-1-5m-homes-bold-change-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s Path to 1.5M Homes: Bold Change Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Ontario\u2019s ambitious goal of 1.5 million new homes looks out of reach\u2014this year, just 65,400 housing starts were recorded, down from 74,600 in 2024. As someone who\u2019s spent years helping families and individuals plant roots in Muskoka, I see firsthand how zoning complexity and fragmented building codes slow things down, making it harder for all kinds of buyers to find their place. There\u2019s growing momentum behind calls for unified regulations and more flexible standards\u2014changes that could finally get shovels in the ground at the pace Ontario needs. In the meantime, I stay focused on guiding clients through the realities of today\u2019s market, using a property inspector\u2019s perspective to spot value and opportunity in every transaction.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/money.ca\/real-estate\/ontario-housing-target-regulatory-reform-affordability\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s ambitious goal of 1.5 million new homes looks out of reach\u2014this year, just 65,400 housing starts were recorded, down from 74,600 in 2024. As someone who\u2019s spent years helping families and individuals plant roots in Muskoka, I see firsthand how zoning complexity and fragmented building codes slow things down, making it harder for all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buysellmuskoka.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}