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Bill 28, Homelessness Ends with Housing Act, 2025

Clancy, Aislinn

Fairclough, Lee

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EXPLANATORY

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The

Bill enacts the Homelessness Ends with Housing Act, 2025 .

The purpose of the Act is to establish the Government of Ontario’s vision to

eliminate homelessness in a transparent and accountable manner. The Act

provides that the Government of Ontario must design, implement and maintain a

homelessness elimination strategy that aims to eliminate homelessness within 10

years and sets out the objectives respecting the design, implementation and

maintenance of that strategy.

The

Act requires the Minister to establish a Homelessness Advisory Committee that

will make recommendations to the Government of Ontario on how to achieve the

objectives of the strategy. The Minister is also required to prepare an annual

report describing how the Government of Ontario is working to achieve the

objectives.

Bill 28 2025

Act establishing a homelessness elimination strategy

Preamble

In 2024, more than 80,000 Ontarians were

homeless. If appropriate measures are not taken, there could be as many as

300,000 homeless people in the next decade. Many Ontarians agree that

homelessness is an important issue that should be addressed by prioritizing

housing and supports to help people transition out of homelessness. Studies

have shown that not taking appropriate action is also the more expensive

approach – increased health care costs, incarceration and emergency shelters

all result in costs that are higher than investing in the housing and supports

that are needed.

The

Government of Ontario is committed to ensuring every person is treated with

dignity and has access to housing that meets their needs.

Therefore,

His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of

the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Definitions

this Act,

“deeply

affordable rental unit” means a housing unit for which the person who rents the

unit does not pay more than 30 per cent of their gross income; (“ logement

locatif très abordable ”)

“Minister”

means the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing or such other member of the

Executive Council to whom responsibility for the administration of this Act may

be assigned or transferred under the Executive Council Act . (“ministre”)

Purpose

The

purpose of this Act is to establish the Government of Ontario’s vision to

eliminate homelessness in a transparent and accountable manner.

Homelessness

elimination strategy

(1) The

Government of Ontario shall design, implement and maintain a homelessness

elimination strategy that aims to eliminate homelessness within 10 years.

Objectives

of strategy

(2) The

Government of Ontario shall have the following objectives in the design,

implementation and maintenance of the strategy:

1. Building

a data collection and reporting system that adequately captures the trends in

people experiencing homelessness with respect to their health and outstanding

needs.

2. Ensuring

housing targets will lead to improved housing affordability and ensuring a plan

is put in place to create adequate availability of deeply affordable rental units.

3. Investing

in new supportive housing.

4. Increasing

portable housing supports by increasing funding to the Canada-Ontario Housing

Benefit program.

5. Using

a housing-first approach that involves quickly moving people experiencing

homelessness into independent and permanent housing without preconditions.

Advisory

committee

(1) The

Minister shall, no more than 90 days following the day this Act comes into

force, establish an advisory committee under the name of Homelessness Advisory

Composition

(2) The

Homelessness Advisory Committee shall be composed of no more than 11 members

appointed by the Minister.

Same

(3) The

Minister shall make all reasonable efforts to ensure that the composition of

the Homelessness Advisory Committee reflects the diversity of people

experiencing homelessness, and shall ensure that the Advisory Committee

includes members from housing advocacy groups and individuals who have

experienced homelessness.

Functions

(4) The

Homelessness Advisory Committee shall make recommendations to the Government of

Ontario on how to achieve the objectives set out in subsection 3 (2).

Report

by Minister

(1) The

Minister shall prepare an annual report describing how the Government of

Ontario is working to achieve the objectives set out in subsection 3 (2) in the

design, implementation and maintenance of the homelessness elimination

strategy.

Contents

of report

(2) The

report shall include such information as the Minister considers appropriate and

the following information:

1. The

total number of unhoused individuals in Ontario in the first report and the

number of individuals in Ontario who became unhoused since the last report in

each subsequent report.

2. The

number of unhoused individuals in Ontario who died in the past twelve months in

the first report and who died since the last report in each subsequent report.

3. Instances

of previously unhoused individuals in Ontario who found housing but who became

unhoused again in the past twelve months in the first report and who became

unhoused again since the last report in each subsequent report.

4. The

number of available supportive, transitional and deeply affordable rental units

in Ontario.

5. Such

other information as may be prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Report

to be made public

(3) The

Minister shall make the first report available to the public no later than one

year following the day this Act comes into force and each subsequent report no

later than one year following the day the most recent report was published.

Regulations

The

Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing information for

the purposes of paragraph 5 of subsection 5 (2).

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Homelessness Ends with

Housing Act, 2025 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

October 23, 2025

Second Reading

Vote

Lost on division

October 22, 2025

Second Reading

Question put

Vote deferred

October 22, 2025

Second Reading

Debated

May 27, 2025

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

May 27, 2025

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

May 27, 2025

Carried

Ordered for Second Reading

Second Reading

October 22, 2025

Debated

Question put

October 23, 2025

Lost on division

Vote on second reading - Lost (October 23, 2025)

Ayes

(40) Teresa J. Armstrong

Jessica Bell

Stephen Blais

Guy Bourgouin

Stephanie Bowman

Bobbi Ann Brady

Jeff Burch

Rob Cerjanec

Aislinn Clancy

Lucille Collard

Lee Fairclough

Catherine Fife

John Fraser

Jennifer K. French

Wayne Gates

Alexa Gilmour

Chris Glover

Lisa Gretzky

Andrea Hazell

Ted Hsu

Robin Lennox

Sol Mamakwa

Catherine McKenney

Mary-Margaret McMahon

Chandra Pasma

Tom Rakocevic

Peggy Sattler

Mike Schreiner

Adil Shamji

Sandy Shaw

Stephanie Smyth

Jennifer (Jennie) Stevens

Marit Stiles

Peter Tabuns

Jonathan Tsao

John Vanthof

Lise Vaugeois

Tyler Watt

Jamie West

Kristyn Wong-Tam

Nays

(63) Tyler Allsopp

Deepak Anand

Aris Babikian

Robert Bailey

Will Bouma

Ric Bresee

Hon. Paul Calandra

Hon. Raymond Sung Joon Cho

Monica Ciriello

Hon. Steve Clark

Lorne Coe

Hon. Stephen Crawford

Rudy Cuzzetto

George Darouze

Billy Denault

Jess Dixon

Andrew Dowie

Hon. Doug Downey

Hon. Jill Dunlop

Hon. Victor Fedeli

Mohamed Firin

Hon. Rob Flack

Dawn Gallagher Murphy

Hardeep Singh Grewal

Hon. Zee Hamid

Hon. Ernie Hardeman

Hon. Mike Harris

Hon. Kevin Holland

Hon. Sylvia Jones

Hon. Trevor Jones

John Jordan

Logan Kanapathi

Hon. Andrea Khanjin

Anthony Leardi

Hon. Neil Lumsden

Hon. Graham McGregor

Hon. Caroline Mulroney

Billy Pang

Hon. Michael Parsa

Hon. David Piccini

Natalie Pierre

Steve Pinsonneault

Hon. George Pirie

Hon. Nolan Quinn

Joseph Racinsky

Hon. Greg Rickford

Brian Riddell

Bill Rosenberg

Sheref Sabawy

Amarjot Sandhu

Hon. Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria

Stéphane Sarrazin

Brian Saunderson

Dave Smith

David Smith

Hon. Graydon Smith

Laura Smith

Hon. Nina Tangri

Hon. Michael A. Tibollo

Effie J. Triantafilopoulos

Paul Vickers

Daisy Wai

Hon. Charmaine A. Williams

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