The province says the funding will keep workers on the job in the face of U.S. tariffs and speed up projects that lower costs for families.
Ontario is nearly doubling its Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program (MHIP) with a new $1.6 billion investment announced Monday by Premier Doug Ford at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference.
The move raises the fund to $4 billion, giving municipalities and Indigenous communities more resources to build roads, bridges and water systems needed for new housing.
Since launching in 2024, the program has already supported construction of 800,000 homes.
The province says the funding will keep workers on the job in the face of U.S. tariffs and speed up projects that lower costs for families.
The investment also builds on Ontario’s $1.2 billion Building Faster Fund, which rewards municipalities that meet housing targets.
Ontario’s broader $200 billion capital plan includes $33 billion this year alone for transit, highways, hospitals, schools and housing-enabling infrastructure, the largest construction agenda in provincial history.
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