Developer price‑lock and housing KPI
Petitioners ask the government to require developers to lock base prices so rebates lower final prices, condition infrastructure funding on a six‑month municipal permit limit, cut red tape to speed ground‑oriented housing, and adopt a KPI to lower freehold prices to 3–4× income and build 3.5M homes in two years.
Why we would sign this petition
- Price locks and rebate pass‑through would force subsidies to reduce buyer costs rather than boost developer margins, directly improving affordability for purchasers.
- A six‑month municipal permit cap and reduced red tape would speed approvals and raise supply of ground‑oriented homes that families seek.
- A binding KPI plus a 3.5M‑in‑two‑years target provides clear, measurable goals to lower freehold price‑to‑income ratios toward 3–4×.
Why we wouldn’t sign this petition
- Enforcing pre‑change price locks and mandatory rebate pass‑throughs may be administratively complex and hard to audit, reducing practical effectiveness.
- A rigid six‑month approval deadline could strain municipal planning capacity, risk inadequate local review, or clash with local land‑use priorities.
- The 3.5M homes‑in‑two‑years goal is extremely ambitious and may be logistically or fiscally unrealistic, risking rushed construction or misallocated resources.
The summary and both sets of reasons are AI-generated from the petition and given equal weight. Claims are the petitioners’ own; consult the official record for the full text.
Official petition
Petition to the House of Commons Canadian real estate prices are entirely disconnected from average incomes, preventing citizens from achieving freehold homeownership; Broad housing tax relief initiatives, like enhanced GST/HST rebates, are weaponized by private developers who systematically increase base list prices upon a policy’s announcement to pocket the subsidies rather than passing savings to buyers; and Current development trends have over-indexed on small, high-density investor units rather than the spacious, ground-oriented family homes Canadians actually need, while chronic municipal bureaucratic delays artificially constrict the volume of new single-family housing supply. We, the undersigned, Citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to enact strict anti-gouging regulations forcing developers to lock in base list prices prior to tax changes, mandating that any new rebate must legally reduce the consumer's final purchase price from that auditable baseline. 1. Condition federal infrastructure funding on municipal governments implementing a strict, non-negotiable six-month maximum approval window for all single-family and ground-oriented residential building permits; 2. Eliminate federal, provincial, and municipal red tape to rapidly get shovels in the ground for traditional single-family homes and townhomes; and 3. Establish a binding national Key Performance Indicator (KPI) to restore structural housing affordability, explicitly targeting a reduction in average freehold home prices back down to a sustainable ratio of no more than 3 to 4 times the average Canadian household income as well as exceed the 5.8 million homes target set out by the CMHC prior to 2030, including building 3.5 million homes over the next two years - largely concentrated in crisis areas such as the GTA and GVA.
Government response
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