The federal government and Alberta are pledging to build at least 1,460 affordable housing units across the province.
Ottawa will provide up to $220 million through Build Canada Homes, a federal agency formed to speed up the delivery of the housing, while Alberta will pay up to $165 million.
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The governments are expecting to receive $238 million from other sources.
A news release says the 21 planned housing projects will include supportive and transitional housing.
There is a target of building at least 500 homes using modern methods of construction, including off-site and factory-built approaches.
Build Canada Homes and Alberta will also establish a “joint collaboration table” to identify priority projects and coordinate investments.
They wont build a single unit that wasnt slated to be built or increases the average output of new homes just like none of these anouncements has ever resulted in more building.
Here come housing Ghettos filled with (‘special’ people) for Calgary.
Factory built homes = mobilie/modulars. Anyone done the math? That works out to $263,700 per modular home. That is not even counting the extra money Alberta is planning on getting (from where?). These are supposed to be low end, affordable housing???
Price-check: $80,000 -$150,000 would be a reasonable price.
For the price that the governments are doing it. I contracted a 2,400 sq foot, top end home, turn key.
Affordable homes for Canadians or Immigrants? Where is the extra money coming from?
We liberals, just keep winning.
Good call Mr. Prime Minister.
Please stop crying conservative paid bots on here.
You lost, you should be use to it, look at yourselves.
I smell Brookfield Asset Management involved in this.
Print more money no doubt.
Again people it is not government funding. It is taxpayer funded and will do nothing to lower the costs of of living even to those that qualify to purchase these “Low Cost Home subsidized by the Canadian taxpayer “
Will earn some votes for the Liberals though and that is what this is really about.
Just believe that Carney has your back even though hard times are ahead due to his leadership only! Don’t blame others for this as that is what the Liberals want you to believe.
Are you serious?! What a stupid joke. So build more homes. You think that’s the solution? How about tackling the root of the oh so many problems we have in Alberta so that people can actually afford the homes that are already existing.
Throwing tax dollars at this issue will NOT create affordable housing. When there are carbon, plastic and packaging taxes that go into everything that it takes to build, furnish and maintain a home.
Brookfield is heavily involved in the modular building sector through its major global subsidiary, Modulaire Group.
Interesting!….
Is Carney’s Brookfield getting the contracts to build them?
The Liberals DOUBLED our national debt in just 10 years to a whopping 1.4 TRILLION.
Record high homelessness and drug addiction.
Record high foodbank visits (2.3 million Canadians visit a foodbank each MONTH)
Weakest military in the G7
Only g20 nation in a recession
Elbows up 🤣
Again, more money to the 30% crowd. Still nothing but silence, loans, or temporary actions for the rest of us. No changes for the last 12 Years or Liberal rule.
The cost of living goes up and the standard of living goes down.
Affordable homes? With all the new code restrictions? With all the cities meddling? Just another way of lining the pockets of liberal hacks!