Backlog of 1.2 million homes in Toronto-Hamilton not being built

OTTAWA — For every house being built in Canada’s largest metropolitan area, a new report says, there are 12 that have all of the necessary approvals but no shovels in the ground, which amounts to a backlog of about 1.2-million homes in that area alone. Article content

The report, to be released Tuesday by cross-sectoral group CivicAction, says that backlog in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GHTA) and across the country is a major factor in Canada’s housing crisis. Article content

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The gulf between the planned homes and those actually getting built, CivicAction says, is a result of a wide variety of structural bottlenecks, including: municipal planning departments are designed for building levels of the past, not what is needed today; financing