安省自由黨出台住房計劃，向炒地投機者發出警告

該計劃還將瞄準未充分利用的土地，如空置商場和政府用地

多倫多——安省自由黨領袖鄧德華（Steven Del Duca）於5月9日宣布了安省自由黨推動讓租房者和購房者都更易於負擔、更容易得到住房的計劃，這是自由黨為安大略省的大膽願景“成長養息的地方”中的一個重要組成部分。這項全面的計劃包括近四十項政策，要讓購買、租賃和生活在一個家中更容易、更實惠。

“在近來的日子裡，很難不聽到人們談論飛漲的房價。事實是，人們越來越難以在自己長大的社區中生活，”鄧德華說道。“我們安省自由黨計劃將在明年把住房建設的速度提高一倍，並保持這一速度，直到我們興建了150萬套新的住房，這些新建的地方包括使用率低的條帶性購物中心、用於投機的土地以及可用的政府房產。”

安省自由黨的計劃將建造150萬套住房，包括真正的可負擔住房，比如為最需要的人建造新的社會和支持性住房。為了使住房建設速度翻倍，自由黨計劃將創建一個新的安大略住房建設公司(Ontario Home Building Corporation, OHBC)，以融資並建造新的、可負擔的住房。

安大略住房建設公司（OHBC）公司將與當地社區以及非營利和私營住房夥伴合作，將它們作為主要融資來源或建造者，建造和維護各種類型的可負擔住房。由OHBC出售的任何房屋將只提供給首次購房者，任何所得收益將直接用於建造更多可負擔的房屋。 OHBC將承擔立即解決住房可負擔性危機、冷卻住房市場的任務，確保迅速建造住房——包括可負擔的公共住房。

安省自由黨的綜合住房計劃將把房屋建設速度提高一倍，這一計劃將賦權地方政府能夠建造更多房屋。作為推進區域規劃改革的重要一步，安省自由黨政府將與市政合作夥伴一起迅速開展工作，允許在全省範圍內可以依照當然權利（as-of-right）建造最多三個單元、兩層樓的房屋——這一許可也擴展到“第二套間”（secondary suite）和“後巷屋”（laneway suites）。

自由黨的住房可負擔計劃還將：

禁止新的非居民房產，並對空置房屋徵稅；

對已經是“熟地”（serviced land）並已獲批准建設許可而在坐等的土地投機者徵收“不用即失去”（use it or lose it）款項，並將所得資金用於建設更多可負擔住房；

恢復安大略省所有住房的租金控制；

對持續疏忽的房東處以更大的罰款；

規範驗房人員，使驗房成為合法權利；

確保購房者在被取消的住房項目中儘早得到退款，大幅提高損失押金的利率；

鄧德華繼續說道：“2018年，道格·福特承諾降低住房成本。四年來，省內平均房價飆升了50萬元，而福特保守黨炮製了一個又一個不完善的計劃。安省自由黨的住房可負擔計劃將民眾家庭放在第一位，將投機者予以警告。我們向安大略關注住房負擔能力的人們傳達的信息很明確：您的選票，您的選擇。”

Ontario Liberal housing plan puts land speculators on notice 

Plan will target underused lands like stripmalls and government properties 

TORONTO – Steven Del Duca has announced the Ontario Liberal plan to make housing more affordable and available to both renters and homebuyers – a key component of the party’s bold vision for Ontario, A Place to Grow. The comprehensive plan includes nearly forty policies that will make buying, renting, and living in a home easier and more affordable. 

“It’s hard to have a conversation these days without hearing about the skyrocketing cost of housing. The fact is, it’s getting harder and harder for people to live in the neighbourhoods they grew up in,” said Del Duca. “Our Ontario Liberal plan will double the pace of homebuilding next year, and keep that pace going until we’ve built 1.5 million new homes on places like poorly used stripmalls, land held for speculation, and available government properties.” 

The Ontario Liberal plan will build 1.5 million homes, including truly affordable homes like new social and supportive housing for people who need it. To help double the pace of homebuilding, the Liberal plan will create a new Ontario Home Building Corporation (OHBC) to finance and build new, affordable homes.  

This OHBC will work with local communities, as well as not-for-profit and private housing partners to build and maintain affordable homes of all types, either as a primary financing source or builder. Any homes sold by the OHBC will be available only to first-time home buyers, and any proceeds will go directly back into creating more affordable homes. The OHBC will have a mandate to immediately address the housing affordability crisis, cooling the market by ensuring homes – including affordable public homes – are built rapidly. 

Ontario Liberals’ comprehensive housing plan to double the pace of homebuilding will also empower local governments to build more homes. As an important step toward zoning reform, an Ontario Liberal government will work quickly, together with municipal partners to allow homes with up to three units and two storeys to be built as-of-right across our province – with this permission also extending to secondary and laneway suites. 

The Liberal plan for housing affordability will also: 

• Ban new non-resident ownership and put a tax on empty homes; 
• Introduce “use it or lose it” levies on speculators sitting on serviced land who have approved building permits, and use the funds generated to get more affordable housing built; 
• Bring back rent control to all homes across Ontario; 
• Enforce larger fines for persistently negligent landlords; 
• Regulate home inspectors and make home inspections a legal right; 
• Ensure buyers are refunded sooner for canceled housing projects, with significantly higher interest rates on lost deposits; 

“In 2018, Doug Ford promised to reduce the cost of housing. In the four years since, the average home price has skyrocketed by half a million dollars as the Ford Conservatives churned through inadequate plan after inadequate plan,” continued Del Duca. “The Ontario Liberal plan for housing affordability puts speculators on notice while putting families first. Our message to Ontarians concerned about housing affordability is clear: the choice is yours.”