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Steep construction costs are a challenge in the GTA, while Ontario's municipalities often have the slowest timelines for approval.

Home builders across Canada pushed housing starts to their highest level since 2022 in July, with one glaring exception: Ontario, where new home construction is mired in a prolonged slump.

Ontario’s six-month average of residential construction starts was near the lowest level in a decade last month, in stark contrast to starts in the rest of the country, which powered to an all-time high, according to an analysis of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation construction data by Robert Hogue, assistant chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada.

British Columbia has also experienced a slowdown in starts, but not to the same extent as Canada’s most popu

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