<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://display.blogto.com/articles/20250417-pierre-poilievre-housing.jpg?w=1200&amp;cmd=resize_then_crop&amp;height=630&amp;quality=70&amp;format=jpeg" width="100%" /><p>Canadians will head to the polls to elect their Prime Minister on April 28, and undecided voters in Ontario have just a few days to make their choice before the <a href="https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/03/canadian-federal-election-need-know/">2025 federal election</a>.</p><p>Housing is one of the most significant issues facing Ontario and B.C. residents&nbsp;amid the rising cost of living in the provinces, and the candidate with the best housing policy might just win over a fair share of undecided voters who are looking to purchase a home.</p><p>Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre's campaign has largely focused on taxation when it comes to easing the cost-of-living burden, but blogTO's parent company, ZoomerMedia, recently had the chance to ask the candidate himself how his party would make homes cheaper for Ontario and B.C. residents, if elected.</p><p>"I really relate with young people, because I see them every day telling me that they work non-stop and it barely covers the rent they'd have to save for 29 or 30 years to get a down payment on the average Vancouver or Toronto house, and their parents are having to mortgage their homes to help their kids to get a place to live," says Poilievre.</p><p>Before diving into his housing platform, Poilievre pointed&nbsp;the blame for the current housing crisis squarely on the past administration, arguing that "it wasn't like this before this lost Liberal decade."</p><p>When asked how he would make homes more affordable, Poilievre says he will "axe the sales tax on new homes to save people up to 65 grand."&nbsp;</p><p>Poilievre also promises to "incentivize municipalities to cut their development taxes another 50 grand a home," stating that these measures would "save [buyers] over $100,000 per home."</p><p>According to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB), the average selling price in the Greater Toronto Area slid 2.5 per cent year-over-year to $1,093,254. While savings of up to $100,000 would undoubtedly make homes more accessible in an ultra-competitive market, it might not be a substantial enough figure to sway some undecided voters.</p><p>The savings could be pronounced if home prices continue to decline, but market conditions suggest there is <a href="https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2025/04/home-prices-canada-drop/">no major correction on the horizon</a>. Meanwhile, new home construction has <a href="https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2025/04/hardly-building-buying-homes-ontario-market-flops/">fallen off a cliff in Ontario</a>, further constraining supply, and keeping prices high.</p><p>When asked how he would incentivize municipalities to cut development charges and boost new home construction, Poilievre suggests a "carrot-and-stick" approach.</p><p>"My message to those who have obscene increases in development charges, they will not be eligible for any federal infrastructure money, so they'll have to avoid that. Secondly, there will be a carrot, and I will pay for half the cost of any reductions municipalities do in their development charges while I'm Prime Minister."</p><p>"The idea would be to incentivize them, to bring them down by $50,000 a home."</p><p>He says that, in addition to cutting the cost of homes by $100,000, his incentives would "stimulate about 60,000 additional home builds above and beyond what would otherwise be built."</p><p>He also points to red tape and threatens firings within the CMHC if financing approval requests for apartments can't be limited to under two months.</p><p>"I've said that CMHC bureaucrats and top executives will be fired if they don't hit that two-month turnaround time," Poilievre warns.</p><p>Another measure mentioned by Poilievre is linking the allocation of "federal infrastructure dollars that each municipality gets to the number of homes they allow to be completed."</p><p>However, Poilievre doesn't seem entirely opposed to more radical shifts in the market that favour first-time homebuyers, even if it means the wealthy homeowner class could lose some investment potential along the way.</p><p>When asked about the years-long shift towards housing being seen as an investment or commodity, and the possibility of lower housing prices affecting investors, Poilievre states that "most of the people who have these enormous gains in their housing price, they would have to come down a phenomenal amount before they would be in a lost position, because they would have bought when the house was, say, $350,000 and it's now $1.4 million"</p><p>"So I don't think there's no one who's gonna end up as a big loser," he added.</p><p>Other housing policies mentioned during the interview included introducing measures to "push cities to speed up permits through powerful financial incentives," along with selling off 6,000 federal buildings and thousands of acres of federally-owned land. He also promises to " train 350,000 young tradespeople to go into the building trades."</p><p>The Conservative leader defended his track record with housing by stating that, during his time as Housing Minister, "the average cost for a house was only $450,000 and the average rent for a one-bedroom was 900 bucks."</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on housing affordability in Canada 🏠🇨🇦<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/canadianpolitics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#canadianpolitics</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/election2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#election2025</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/housing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#housing</a> <a href="https://t.co/eHkWspbfzW">pic.twitter.com/eHkWspbfzW</a></p>&mdash; blogTO (@blogTO) <a href="https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1912536621670343093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote><p>Pierre Poilievre's housing policies may very well prove beneficial to some Canadians, but there are several factors for voters to consider ahead of election day.</p><p>Some of Poilievre's stances have polarized Canadians; however, many voters may be swayed by economic concerns and cast their ballots for candidates who promise to put money back in their pockets during these challenging times.</p><p><em>ZoomerMedia - the parent company of this publication - will be hosting an announcement with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday, April 21 at 12:30 p.m. The event will be livestreamed below:</em></p><p></p><p><em>Zoomer is in talks with Liberal Leader Mark Carney and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to hear from them before the election&nbsp;- stay tuned for more details.</em></p>