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This is the best summary I could come up with:
That includes $1 billion in its new municipal housing infrastructure program and $825 million for the housing‐enabling water systems fund in the budget.
Lombardi said he would have liked to see solutions that could ramp up all kinds of housing, including land use reforms that would make it possible for fourplexes — buildings split into four separate units — in more neighbourhoods province-wide.
The budget committed an additional $152 million over the next three years to "support individuals facing unstable housing conditions and dealing with mental health and addictions challenges."
Ontario Liberal Party Leader Bonnie Crombie said: "This is another catastrophic failure of a government who says they're in the housing business.
Crombie says unless the government makes specific affordable housing commitments, they don't have the interests of young people and families in mind.
He's worried the government doesn't want to make the land-use reforms happen that would truly enable modular construction.
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