The Ford government is still a little more than 100,000 housing starts short of its target for new homes in 2025, as the ministers try to manage expectations on the overall goal.

The Progressive Conservatives won the 2022 election partly under a promise to build 1.5 million new homes by 2031, setting themselves annual targets in the process.

Those targets started at 110,000 per year, rising to 175,000 per year from 2026.

Figures released by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for October, however, show Ontario has barely hit a third of its target for this year.

Under the staggered goals it set for itself, the province has to begin work on 150,000 new homes this year. The latest data shows that, between January and October, just 49,678 houses began construction in Ontario — 33

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