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   Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:49 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

   Quick post on how Ontario cities are simultaneously:

   1. Flagrantly disregarding Ontario's 1.5 million housing target (and the need for more homes) AND

   2. Keeping development charges artificially high

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     Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:56 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

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     The fact that it's Windsor feels particularly relevant to me, as the Mayor of Windsor is the co-chair of the provincial government's Housing Supply Action Plan Implementation Team.

     Dan Fox repeated this.
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     Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:56 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

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     In short, Ontario cities continue to fail to take the housing crisis seriously.

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     Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:57 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

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     Windsor has also been in the news recently for their proposed development charge hikes:

     "single-family homes would increase to $76,543 each (up 151 per cent), and to $117,086 for Sandwich South lands (up 145 per cent)."

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     Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:57 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

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     If you look at the background study used to calculate these development charges, you find something interesting: It's based on only having 9,530 housing starts over 10 years.

     That's a lot less than 13,000.

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     Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:57 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

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     This matters for 2 reasons:

     1. It shows Windsor isn't planning on hitting the provincial target
     2. This lower forecast keeps development charges higher than they otherwise would be

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     Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:57 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

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     DCs are calculated by taking planned infrastructure spend and dividing it over the planned number of housing starts. Increase planned starts, and you're spreading that cost over more homes; cost per home falls.

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     Dr. Mike P. Moffatt (mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 20:28:58 JST Dr. Mike P. Moffatt

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     The Ontario government has assigned 50 cities 10-year housing targets. Toronto's is 285,000, Hamilton and London's are 47,000 each, Woodstock's is 5,500 etc.

     Windsor's is 13,000.