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    Response to Canadian Home Builders Association report

    In 2008, the Canadian Home Builders Association commissioned Altus Clayton to write a report that is very critical of Inclusionary Housing.  This report has been used as the basis for arguments that municipalities should not use IH policies to try to increase the supply of affordable housing.

    The Wellesley Institute commissioned David Rusk, a leading American expert on Inclusionary Housing, to examine this report and look at the counter-arguments in favour of using this tool.  Richard Drdla, the leading Canadian expert, has also written a paper that examines the many flaws in the Altus Clayton report.

    Altus Clayton Report

    David Rusk Critique

    Richard Drdla Critique

    Regional Planning Commissioners of Ontario Make Strong Case for Inclusionary Housing

    The Regional Planning Commissioners of Ontario (RPCO) represents the planning directors, commissioners and other senior planning officials of municipal governments across Ontario.

    Its current membership includes the Cities of Chatham-Kent, Guelph, Greater Sudbury, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Ottawa, Thunder Bay and Windsor; the Regional Municipalities of Durham, Halton, Niagara, Peel, Waterloo, and York; Counties of Simcoe and Haldimand; and the District Municipality of Muskoka.

    The RPCO through letters to the Province and position papers has repeatedly made clear its support for inclusionary housing.

    The most recent correspondence, a letter from the Chair of the RPCO to the Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing on 12 April 2010, opened with this statement:

    “I am writing to again express our support for the development of explicit policies and legislation to enable municipalities to require the provision of inclusionary housing.”

    Read this letter in full.

    See other endorsers of Inclusionary Housing

    Inclusionary Housing and its Impact on Housing and Land Markets

    David Rosen, Inclusionary Housing and its Impact on Housing and Land Markets, 2004.  To determine if inclusionary housing programs are associated with a decline in housing production, the author compiled data on annual housing starts over a 20-year period in California.

    Read the report