Brantford "answers the call" to address housing crisis

A University of Ottawa report measuring new home construction and sales in the Greater Golden Horseshoe area gives Brantford an A+.

The report, done for the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON), puts Brantford at the head of the class. It looked at housing starts and sales in 34 municipalities including Toronto, Guelph, Vaughan, Pickering and Oakville.

Of the 34 municipalities, 22 received an F, five others a D with the remaining receiving a C or higher.

Brantford was the only municipality to receive an A+ followed by Milton with an A.

“This report shows that when the federal and provincial governments called on municipalities to do whatever they could to address the housing crisis, Brantford answered the call,” Mayor Kevin Davis said. “It shows the measures we’ve imple