Ontario landlords and developers lobby en masse following Greenbelt fallout

And eight other insights from the IJF’s lobbying newsletter

28 Sep 2023 • 5 min read

A construction worker stands on a house in a new housing development in Oakville, Ontario. In the wake of Doug Ford’s reversal on developing the Greenbelt, developers, landlords and advocacy groups registered en masse to discuss housing at the federal and provincial levels. (The Canadian Press/Richard Buchan)

Xavier Richer Vis

Xavier is a Toronto-based journalist and a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London’s master’s in digital journalism. He first joined the IJF as a data-scraping volunteer. His work has appeared in Wired.

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