Water and road improvements will help meet housing targets in Brampton, region says

Upgrades to local water infrastructure will help the city meet its provincially-mandated housing numbers – an annual target that Brampton hasn’t hit in years.

In 2022, Ontario passed the More Homes Built Faster Act in a push to see municipalities across the province add 1.5 million homes across the province within 10 years.

Brampton’s target was set at 113,000 new units – a number that the city said was more than triple what had been planned in the city for over the next decade. A report in 2022 found there were approximately 33,200 new households in Brampton between 2011 and 2021 – less than a third of the province’s 113,000 household target for the City in the next 10 years.

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And while Brampton was handed $25.5 million in infrastructure funding as a reward for breaking ground on some 7,028 housing units in 2023, the city hasn’t hit its annual targets since then and hasn’t received any additional bonuses.

But improvements to the Region of Peel’s water infrastructure in the Dixie Road area will help meet the housing targets outlined in the More Homes Built Faster Act, the region says.

Under the region’s Flow Program, the area is getting new watermains and reservoir upgrades, along with road widening and noise wall replacements.

The work is all part of capital investments “aimed at delivering the necessary infrastructure needed to build 1.5 million new homes in Ontario over the next decade,” including 113,000 homes in Brampton and 13,000 homes in Caledon, the region says.

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