AMO 2025 Provincial Election Tracking

• Eliminate any unnecessary red tape, reporting requirements, and other barriers typically faced by those needing financial support

• Remove ODSP from the purview of Employment Ontario  

• Ensure shelter allowances reflect the shelter costs where people live 

Immediately support people living in encampments with their housing and support needs until permanent housing solutions are built and resume the homelessness census to ensure the creation of sustainable, long-term solutions. 

Work with non-profits to build 250,000 new affordable non-profit and co-op homes and 60,000 permanent supportive homes with guaranteed funding for mental health, addictions and other supports.

Utilize a Housing First model to ensure that stable, permanent housing solutions are the first priority when helping those in need.

Engage people who have lived experience with homelessness in program development.

Create an inter-ministerial working group to ensure government investments targeting homelessness are coordinated, appropriately funded and provide long-term solutions.

Build an adequate data system for housing indicators in Ontario that captures the underlying trends of people with unmet housing needs.

Deploy temporary and permanent supportive modular housing projects on provincially owned land as quickly as possible. Create tax credits and investment funds to help advance these housing technologies.

Increase annual funding for women’s shelters as well as safe and accessible transitional and supportive housing options for women and their families. Ensure transitional housing is culturally appropriate.

Update the Planning Act, Provincial Planning Statement and other applicable laws and regulations to expand zoning permissions to allow for fourplexes and four storeys as-of-right within existing urban boundaries and sixplexes in cities with populations over 500,000.

Require municipalities to permit developments with the use of pre-approved building designs. 

Prioritize and speed up the development approval processes for projects led by or in partnership with non-profit housing providers, and provide low-interest loans via a new revolving fund.  

Work with all levels of government to include affordable housing developments above transit stations and on transit station surface parking lots. 

Update building codes and land use planning laws, financial tools, tax powers, and funding programs to incentivise the use of faster, lower-cost, and labour-efficient construction methods and sustainable material.

Set uniform provincial standards for urban design and remove onerous rules around floor space index, setbacks, and angular planes that are barriers to building missing middle and midrise housing. 

Update provincial planning laws to prezone for missing middle and midrise housing ranging from 6-11 storeys on transit corridors and major streets in large urban centres with populations over 100,000. 

Change planning laws to ensure various building types can be built along main streets, transit stations and corridors, public lands, surplus commercial lands, and residential neighbourhoods to ensure there is a livable mix of housing in all neighbourhoods. 

Reverse changes to the Provincial Planning Statement that encourage sprawl and instead prioritize housing where roads and sewers already exist. 

Remove development charges on homes, condos and apartment units built under 2,000 sq ft within urban boundaries and implement an Affordable Community Fund to reimburse municipalities for lost revenue. 

Upload all health care and social issues downloaded to municipal governments.  

Leverage the Better Communities Fund to keep municipalities whole and keep your property taxes low. 

Grant municipalities autonomy to implement revenue tools to fund critical infrastructure needs and services.  

Upload costs to the province that had previously been unfairly downloaded onto municipalities like community housing, shelters, and transit funding.  

Provide dedicated and ongoing funding to municipalities to address the mental health and addictions crisis.

Reinstate upper-tier regional planning authority to ensure coordinated and sustainable planning to build the housing we need while protecting agricultural and natural heritage.  

Increase collaboration and consultation between municipalities and the province.  

Assess the use of City Charters as a mechanism to empower major Ontario cities, such as Toronto, and prevent inappropriate interference in local democracy by the provincial government. 

Invest another $2 billion in the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program and $1 billion in the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund, bringing the total amount invested in these programs to more than $4 billion over the last two years. 

Increase the Community Sport and Recreation Fund by $300 million to help build more rinks, arenas, sports centres and other community infrastructure.  

Take tolls off Highway 407 East, which runs between Brock Road in Pickering and Highway 115 in Clarington.  

Introduce legislation to ban the use of congestion prices on all provincial and municipal roadways.  

Deliver a new driver and transit tunnel expressway under Highway 401.  

Launch the Pothole Prevention Fund, which will support municipalities with road maintenance funds. 

Continue to move forward with the Digital Infrastructure Twin program to map underground infrastructure like utilities, which will improve construction safety and support more efficient planning.

Build homes faster by standardizing development study requirements across the province, improving certainty by developing a province-wide tool to accelerate land use planning and Building Code permit approvals and ensuring all municipal standards are in compliance with the Ontario Building Code.  

Upload municipal building approvals for provincially-led and/or provincially funded schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, courthouses, union training centres and other critical infrastructure projects.  

Work with municipalities to leverage the province’s investments in housing-enabling infrastructure to bring a sustainable approach to development charges. 

Provide $2 billion per year for capital spending for municipalities to build resilient infrastructure through a dedicated Climate Adaptation Fund.

Create a predictable, annual Infrastructure fund for safe walking, cycling and accessible mobility devices for municipalities. Stop the province from interfering with municipal transit plans like bike lanes.

Make billionaire fossil fuel companies pay municipalities for the right to use our land for their infrastructure. 

Create a new long-term and predictable municipal funding transfer for rural and Northern communities to improve local roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.