Ontario’s housing minister said he's counting long-term care beds towards the province’s housing target of constructing 1.5 million homes by 2031.
So far, the province’s housing tracker says that there were 109,011 new homes created in Ontario in 2023, which is almost 99 per cent of the government’s target of 110,000 homes.
But 9,835 long-term care beds were counted in the government’s 2023 figures. Ontario has officially 89,297 new housing starts currently under construction, 9,879 additional residential units such as basement units, gardens and laneways and 9,835 new long-term care beds in long-term care homes.