Laneway Homes
Today, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, alongside the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, and the Honourable Terry Beech, Minister of Citizens’ Services, announced significant progress in the federal government’s work to unlock more land in our communities for housing.
Read more: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/10/deputy-prime-minister-announces-new-actions-to-build-secondary-suites-and-unlock-vacant-lands-to-build-more-homes.html
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Laneway Homes has a lot of tiny home projects on the go.
“They're becoming very, very popular,” said company president and CEO Dan Radmore.
The concept is popular enough Essex mayor Sherry Bondy built an Additional Dwelling Unit in her Harrow backyard.
“I have a big family so, you know, we're going to be looking at my older…
Essex Mayor Sherry Bondy is building a tiny home on her property in an effort to help address “one of the region’s most critical issues” — affordable living.
“We’re not getting the green light from the county or the province to develop more houses on farmland,” said Bondy, who is working with Laneway Homes to…
Coach house. Tiny home. Granny flat. There are plenty of names for what is essentially a second smaller house in the backyard. Here in Toronto, they being called by a new name lately: garden suites. The city is currently conducting a formal review to create a bylaw that, if approved, could see these detached mini-homes…
With Toronto’s 2018 laneway rental housing program finally generating new projects in older parts of the core, city planners are working on the sequel – zoning policies that would allow homeowners to build “accessory dwelling units” or “garden suites” in their backyards.
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City of Windsor
City of Windsor (ADU Search) does your home qualify?
Town of Essex provides a guide to secondary dwelling units, see attached. Typically the municipality will allow for 3 units on one property, (One located in the main dwelling and one ADU).
Laneway Homes will work directly with the town to ensure you comply – OR – you can call the planning staff at town…
Finance Your ADU with Libro Credit Union & Laneway Homes
Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit (MHRTC), is a refundable credit to assist with the cost of renovating an eligible dwelling to establish a secondary unit that enables a qualifying individual (a senior or an adult who is eligible for the disability tax credit) to live with…
Adding a Second Unit to an Existing House
With the relatively recent legislation allowing laneway suites and garden suites in various municipalities across Ontario, it is very important to ·understand the HST implications of building these accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and the rebates that are available to the owners of these structures.
There are 3 main reasons for building an ADU:
1) Some…
