{"id":1036,"date":"2026-01-21T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/gta-housing-starts-up-but-still-lagging-jan-2026-roundup\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:01:22","slug":"gta-housing-starts-up-but-still-lagging-jan-2026-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/gta-housing-starts-up-but-still-lagging-jan-2026-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA Housing Starts Up, But Still Lagging: Jan 2026 Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Toronto real estate news paints a mixed picture. CMHC reports a 5.6% increase in housing starts for 2025, a positive sign but still falling short of the required targets to meet demand. In other news, a proposal to convert a 19th-century church into 130 affordable housing units is generating debate, while a developer has cancelled plans for a massive condo tower previously slated to replace Filmores. Other headlines include the city’s efforts to clear encampments near children’s areas, concerns about the impact of self-driving taxis on traffic, and the TTC’s consideration of platform doors for the Ontario Line. For a deeper dive into these stories, visit the original article on UrbanToronto.<\/p>\n

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Toronto housing starts rose 5.6% in 2025, but CMHC says it’s not enough. Plus, a condo tower is cancelled, and a church may become affordable housing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,206],"tags":[210,313,383,182,324,207],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-data","category-residential","tag-affordable-housing","tag-cmhc","tag-condo-development","tag-gta","tag-housing-starts","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestategtatoday.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}