Increasing Availability and Mix

Ensuring everyone has a home starts by fostering housing diversity; a mix of single-family homes, multi-residential homes, apartments, and townhouses in a variety of settings. It also means encouraging housing that is compact, near amenities and affordable. In Bruce County, we define affordable housing as costing less than 30% of household income. Planning guides the long-range supply of residential land, the type and density of residential buildings, and the mix of housing in a community; it considers placing housing in locations where individuals can access jobs more easily, taking into account infrastructure requirements, and building communities with amenities to support health and wellbeing.

Good planning decisions now can have a positive impact on housing diversity and availability over the next 25 years.

Land Use Topics We're Considering

	Housing Targets
	Mix of Homes
	Supply of Homes
	Reducing Costs

Explore each of these topics in greater detail in the Plan the Bruce: Homes Interim Report.

Project Status: IN PROGRESS

In June 2021, the Plan the Bruce Homes Discussion Paper was endorsed as a foundation for developing policies in the new Official Plan.

As part of this project, the County initiated an amendment related to Additional Residential Units in April 2021, which was adopted in July 2021. Policies to further increase flexibility for accommodating residential units came into effect in August 2022.

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