Archive for January 2025

Breakfast with the Mayor emphasizes change and collaboration January 16, 2025 Patrick Langston – All Things Home he annual Breakfast with the Mayor event organized by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association always draws a good crowd and a decent audience response. This time, the event was sold out, and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe basked in a standing…

Housing starts drop in 2024, prompting city to establish task force to speed approval processes January 16, 2025 Mia Jensen – Ontario Business Journal Housing starts in the region dropped 15 per cent last year from 2023, prompting Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe to tell homebuilders that the city will be establishing a task force to…

Ottawa creating task force, eying technology to speed up approvals as new home construction falls 15 per cent Janurary 16, 2025 Josh Pringle – CTV News The City of Ottawa is looking at ways to cut red tape to streamline the housing approval process, as new statistics show home construction fell 15 per cent in…

Mayor Mark Sutcliff: ‘We want to build more homes and we want to build them faster’ January 16, 2025 Caroline Phillips It’s become tradition for the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’​ Association (GOHBA) to kick off the year with Mayor Mark Sutcliffe speaking to members at their first breakfast event. In an industry where certainty is…

Why are new homes so expensive? This report says don’t blame the developers January 3, 2025 Bill Crawford – Ottawa Citizen Soaring costs, ever-changing rules, bureaucratic delays and development charges that are really a disguised wealth transfer from millennials to baby boomers are all making Ontario’s “generational” housing crisis worse, according to a new report…

The Morning Rush- Jason Burggraaf- January 2, 2025 January 3, 2025 The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll Bill is joined by Jason Burggraaf, executive director of the Greater Ottawa Homebuilders Association, to talk about why new homes are so expensive. Click Here To Listen