Breaking Down Walls
For decades, outdated rules limited housing options and put homeownership out of reach for many. Through focused advocacy, TRREB has helped remove key barriers to housing supply and affordability.
TRREB Advocacy Key Wins include:
- Ending exclusionary zoning
- Legalizing multi-plex housing across Toronto
- Cutting red tape to speed up housing approvals
- Unlocking the potential for 160,000 new homes
Opening Doors
Through persistent advocacy, TRREB has helped drive meaningful policy changes that support buyers and expand access to homeownership.
TRREB Advocacy Key Wins include:
- Creating an enhanced RRSP Home Buyers’ Plan helping 100,000 first-time buyers annually
- Tripling the Home Buyers’ Plan tax-free withdrawal limit to $60,000 per person
- Extending first-time homebuyer mortgages to 30 years
- Raising the insured mortgage cap to $1.5 million
- Eliminating the mortgage stress test on renewals
Keeping More in Your Pocket
By advocating for change, TRREB has helped deliver policies that reduce costs and expand affordability for homebuyers.
TRREB Advocacy Key Wins include:
- Doubling the Provincial Land Transfer Tax rebate to $4,000
- Increasing the Toronto Municipal Land Transfer Tax rebate to $4,475
- Blocking $1 billion in proposed new GTA land transfer taxes
- Reducing development charges, which can account for more than 20% of a home’s price
- Introducing new tax credits: for up to $10,000 in closing costs and $50,000 in renovations
- Saving first-time homebuyers up to $130,000 in new home taxes through the removal of GST/HST
Building What’s Next
Restrictive policies and financial barriers have hindered homeownership. TRREB’s advocacy helps reduce costs and expand affordability for buyers.
TRREB Advocacy Key Wins include:
- Reforming the Landlord and Tenant Board process
- Securing $550 million to support prefabricated and modular housing
- Modernizing the Real Estate Act, including allowing broker and salesperson incorporation
- Legalizing digital signatures for real estate transactions
- Preventing duplicate REALTOR® licensing in Toronto
Stronger Together
Policy constraints and financial hurdles have made homeownership more difficult, and TRREB’s advocacy aims to ease costs and broaden affordability for buyers.
TRREB Advocacy Key Wins include:
- Forming a coalition to remove HST on rental construction
- Fostering relationships with 400+ policymakers
- Partnering to advance $550 million in housing innovation
- Earning national recognition four times
- Uniting industry to break construction barriers
These achievements show the impact of advocacy. TRREB remains committed to promoting policies that reduce costs and make homeownership more accessible for Canadians.