Housing starts in the City of Greater Sudbury continue to grow at a rate that could be the envy of most Canadian cities according to the latest report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
The combined percentage of new home starts in Sudbury, from January to July 2025, is up by 113 per cent year over year compared to 2024, said the report.
By comparison, the housing corporation reported that housing starts on the national level, from January to July, was at four per cent.
At the local level, CMHC also reported that the number of single-detached new homes started in Greater Sudbury so far in 2025 was 53, compared with 40 new home starts in 2024.
In the "other" homes category, the number of new homes for far in 2025 was 111, compared with 37 other new home starts in 2024, said the report.
Those numbers, showing single-detached and other new home starts, showed 77 new homes started last year, compared with 164 new homes begun this year, thus the 113 per cent increase.
This places Sudbury (January to July) well ahead of the national trend of four per cent, and well ahead of the Ontario trend of negative 25 per cent.
Sudbury is ahead of most municipalities in Ontario with a few exceptions. Kingston is one exception where housing starts are up by 355 per cent.
It was in May of 2024 that the Daily Commercial News, a journal that tracks home and business construction, reported that Sudbury had hit a strong homebuilding trend, surpassing the previous five years.
Sudbury had seen housing starts surpassing the provincial goal of 3,800 new homes through the Ontario Building Faster Fund, which was announced in 2023.
Earlier this year, the Ontario government, rewarded the City of Greater Sudbury with more than $1.5 million in recognition of the city's success with the Building Faster Fund.
