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Premier Doug Ford, flanked by his minister and associate minister of transportation, announced a plan last week for "transit-oriented communities" as though that was some new and bold concept.

Building up around transit lines has been the urban planners' mantra for decades already. It's the execution that's always been the challenge.

At a time when cities are looking to get people out of their cars, there's rarely a better place to intensify than at transit stations. So Ford is spot on when he says the stations on the forthcoming Ontario Line, as well as other planned and proposed lines across Toronto, should not be sites for low-rise standalone buildings.

But it's troubling to hear Ford and his ministers suggest that affordable housing - one of Toronto's greatest needs - will somehow spring forth from their latest legislative changes to fast-track development in Ontario.

The sweeping legislation, among many other things, exempts hearing requirements under the Expropriations Act to speed up priority transit and highway construction projects. It gives the municipal affairs minister more power over development but does not require affordable housing in new developments.

Yet Ford claims the legislation will "help put affordable home ownership within reach of more Ontario families."

Affordable housing is desperately needed but it won't just happen because the government decides to work with the private sector to build new transit stations and develop around them.

Too often - indeed about as often as they redraw planned transit lines - politicians announce a scheme whereby affordable housing will be miraculously built simply by working with business or by reducing red tape or speeding things up. It's all a form of wishful thinking that never delivers substantial affordable rental housing.

The development industry is very good at building housing that sells and rents far above what's affordable to those who need it the most. It takes governments willing to use major policy and regulatory levers, plus some government funding, to ensure real and lasting affordability.

To date, that has not been the Ford government. What it has done is announce numerous developer-friendly changes and simply claimed those will make housing more available and more affordable.

It revived the developer-friendly OMB rules; gutted endangered species habitat protections; lowered housing density targets; removed rent controls on new apartments; and stripped municipalities of their ability to decide how to levy development charges.

The Ford government has always been keen to reduce the requirements and costs for developers. But it has not taken the necessary steps to ensure those savings are passed on to owners and renters.

This time must be different.

If the province is going to give itself more powers to expropriate land and skip hearing requirements to build transit and housing around stations more quickly, it should at least make sure it achieves the promised public benefit of affordable housing.

The government is looking to jumpstart Ontario's COVID-19 recovery by accelerating increased infrastructure spending.

"This is how we can restart jobs and development. This is how we're going to strengthen our communities. This is how we're going to create opportunity for people," Ford says.

Strengthening our communities and providing the opportunity to live in an affordable home takes a lot more than accelerating construction.

We can't afford to continue the trend where new housing built along rapid transit corridors is largely unaffordable and those who need affordable housing and access to public transit the most are relegated to communities on the outer reaches serviced only by buses.

Ontario's new plan will "connect people to safe and affordable housing," says Kinga Surma, the associate minister of transportation. "We'll build faster and we'll build better."