With an early election in Ontario now underway, this page will track commitments made public in 2025 that relate to AMO’s election advocacy. The language used to describe campaign commitments may be paraphrased from the cited sources. This is not intended to be a full list of commitments made by each party. Please consult each party’s website and local candidate communications for the full party commitments.
Last Update: February 7, 2025
Tackle root causes of homelessness
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| Progressive Conservative (PC) |
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| New Democratic Party (NDP) |
- Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of the NDP’s broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years.
- Upload shelter funding to the province. This will reverse decades of cuts and downloads imposed on cash-strapped municipalities, while maintaining locally focused service delivery.
- More housing benefits that help people move out of shelters, into homes. The NDP will work with the Federal government to boost the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit and help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process.
- Stop people from losing their homes by bringing forward real protections for renters and doubling social assistance rates so people can better keep up with the cost of housing.
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| Liberal |
- Permanently double Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits and index them to inflation.
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| Green |
- Support AMO’s calls for long-term housing solutions that would end homelessness in Ontario by housing people and providing low-barrier healthcare supports and will continue to advocate for deeply affordable, non-market housing solutions.
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Sources:
https://www.ontariondp.ca/news/marit-stiles-and-ontario-ndp-are-your-side-real-solutions-end-encampments
https://ontarioliberal.ca/bonnie-crombie-promises-to-double-odsp/
https://gpo.ca/2025/01/10/ontario-could-end-homelessness-doug-ford-is-standing-in-the-way/
Curb reliance on municipal property taxes to fund provincial responsibilities
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| Progressive Conservative (PC) |
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| New Democratic Party (NDP) |
- Upload shelter funding to the province. This will reverse decades of cuts and downloads imposed on cash-strapped municipalities, while maintaining locally focused service delivery.
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| Liberal |
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Sources:
https://www.ontariondp.ca/news/marit-stiles-and-ontario-ndp-are-your-side-real-solutions-end-encampments
Invest in local infrastructure needed to grow
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| Progressive Conservative (PC) |
- Provide another $5 billion in investments for the Building Ontario Fund, for a total of $8 billion, to provide loans for housing, long-term care, energy, transportation and municipal infrastructure projects.
- Invest another $2 billion in the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program and the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund to create new opportunities for workers in the construction sector, support municipalities and help build more homes.
- Increase the Community Sport and Recreation Fund by $300 million to help build more rinks, arenas, sports centres and other community infrastructure.
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| New Democratic Party (NDP) |
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Sources:
https://ontariopc.ca/only-doug-ford-has-a-plan-to-protect-ontario-workers-by-investing-in-infrastructure/
