Tag: housing
Online summit tackles issue of how to address housing construction crisis
By Grant Cameron
Government-related taxes, fees and levies on new housing must be reduced and approval times for projects must be shortened as production and...
Province invests $30M in critical infrastructure to help build homes in...
The Government of Ontario announced it is investing up to $29.7 million to enable the construction of 12,900 new homes in the City of...
ICBC headquarters will be transformed into hundreds of homes near transit
The Government of British Columbia announced that ICBC's North Vancouver headquarters property will be transformed into hundreds of new homes for people, close to...
Every new home requires $100K in infrastructure spending: CUI report
In a newly released report, A Jump Start: Providing Infrastructure for More Housing, the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) is proposing four new approaches to...
Federal government lays out ambitious housing plans in Budget 2024
The federal government's Budget 2024, previewed with numerous announcements over the past few weeks, not surprisingly was heavy with housing-related spending, with Justin Trudeau's...
Federal government announces new $6B Housing Infrastructure Fund
The Government of Canada has announced the new $6 billion Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund to help support the cost of building infrastructure that supports...
Canada Infrastructure Bank launches Infrastructure for Housing Initiative
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) introduced its Infrastructure for Housing Initiative (IHI), designed to help address the infrastructure constraints which are limiting new housing...
Federal government lays the foundation to change how Canada builds homes
The Government of Canada announced consultations that will begin in early January 2024 on a housing design catalogue initiative, building on the work already being...
Housing challenge is also an infrastructure challenge: FCM
New research commissioned by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) estimates that, on average across the country, the cost of the municipal infrastructure required...
Housing top of mind in federal government’s fall economic statement
The federal government released a housing-focused fall economic statement that promised to deliver 101,000 new homes by 2032.
Starting in the next fiscal year, Ottawa...