The City of Greater Sudbury’s adoption of the new federal Housing Design Catalogue could help smaller homebuilders and homeowners, but larger, more established homebuilders as unlikely to benefit as...
Canada’s slowing economy may be shaking the confidence of builders. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows building permit values fell in April. A drop in multi-family permits fueled nearly the entire...
The Ontario government is providing more than $8 million to the City of Kitchener as a reward for the city exceeding 80 percent of its housing target last year. Kitchener broke ground on 3,005 new...
Investment in Canada’s housing construction sector is declining, data from Statistics Canada shows. Canada’s real estate sector saw $22.6 billion invested in building construction in March, a drop of...
The Town of Huntsville announced today the launch of its new Secondary Residential Dwelling Units (SRDU) program, which offers property owners a simple way to add dwelling units to their residential...
The OAA’s 136th Annual General Meeting of Members (AGM) was held as a virtual event on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. You can view the event in its entirety on the OAA YouTube Channel and learn more about...
With the support of OAA’s Practice Resource Committee and legal counsel, PT.12 Residential Clients (Small projects) has been refocused on single detached dwellings although much of the content is...
Imagine if we embraced wood as the primary solution for everything we are capable of building tall. As Canada and industry mobilize to scale our national housing stock under Build Canada Homes, I...
The Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) has launched the Future-Ready Design Guide (FRDG), a free resource tailored for multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. This...
Hopeful Canadian homebuyers waiting for housing affordability to make a comeback will continue to have their optimism and stamina tested as the likelihood of closing Canada’s housing gap further...