Planning & Development and Building Housing Update
The Targeted Actions to Increase London's Housing Supply: Supporting Council's Pledge for 47,000 units by 2031 identifies the tracking and reporting methods associated with different categories of housing units in the development pipeline.
Development Pipeline Process Overview
Development Pipeline Process Overview
The development pipeline process highlights a timeline that shows the average time for land to progress through the land development process. The entire process is linear and can take up to 10 years to complete.
2025 Highlights
2026 Monthly Updates
Council Housing Approvals
- 293 units were approved by Council in March.
Year-to-date Council approved units (as of March 3 meeting)
| New Units Year-to-Date | Provincial Pledge Total New units |
| 4,339 | 55,773 |
Building Permits Issued
New housing units in permits issued by the Building Division (As of January 31)
| Units (2026 YTD) | Units in 2025 | Units in 2024 |
| 249 | 5,462 | 3,700 |
Provincial Housing Pledge - New Housing Units
(As of Feb 1, 2026 )
| Category | Under Construction | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | Total |
| Housing Starts | 2,495 | 1,534 | 3,089 | 2,553 | 352 | 10,023 | |
| Additional Residential Units (ARUs) and Conversions to Residential | 224 | 281 | 487 | 664 | 22 | 1,678 | |
| Long-Term Care Beds | 0 | 256 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 256 | |
| Postsecondary Student Beds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 796 | N/A | 796 | |
| Congregate Retirement Home Suites | 0 | 0 | 147 | N/A | N/A | 147 | |
| Pre 2022 Housing Starts | 591 | 412 | 195 | 832 | 804 | 91 | 2,925 |
| Total new housing units | 591 | 3,131 | 2,266 | 4,555 | 4,817 | 91 | 15,825 |
CMHC defines a housing start as the beginning of construction work on the building where the dwelling unit will be located. Due to the delay between permit issuance and a CMHC housing start, the number of permits issued and the number of housing starts will not match. Preliminary work on a housing construction site may occur before or after a permit building permit is issued. Learn more about how the Province of Ontario is tracking housing supply progress.
Visit Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CHMC)to find housing market, data and research reports and their housing market information portal offers free, easy-to-use access to the latest housing market data for Canada.
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