Canada's #HousingMinister #SeanFraser says post-secondary institutions will be able to apply for low-interest loans to build #StudentHousing starting this fall.
Post-secondary institutions will have access to a pre-existing program that offers developers low-cost financing to build rental apartments.

#Canada #Housing

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-to-offer-universities-colleges-low-cost-loans-to-build-new-student-housing-1.6746713

Canada to offer universities, colleges low-cost loans to build new student housing

Housing Minister Sean Fraser says post-secondary institutions will be able to apply for low-interest loans to build student housing starting this fall.

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#Ontario walks back plan to dissolve #Peel Region, citing tax hikes, service disruptions

The province of Ontario will not move forward with plans to dissolve #PeelRegion.

In a release on Wednesday, Ontario #HousingMinister #PaulCalandra said legislation would be introduced in the new year to reverse the #HazelMcCallionAct that was passed in the spring.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/12/13/ontario-housing-minister-peels-future/

Ontario housing minister to make announcement amid talk of Peel's future | CityNews Toronto

The government passed the Hazel McCallion Act in the spring to dissolve Peel Region, which is made up of Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon.

CityNews Toronto

The #Ontario government, via #HousingMinister #PaulCalandra, says it will soon introduce legislation that will wind back provincial changes and reverse controversial expansions it made to the urban boundaries of some municipalities as part of its plan to build more homes.

#ONpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/official-plan-reversal-legislation-1.7004947

Ford government to reverse controversial urban boundary expansions | CBC News

The Ontario government says it will reverse controversial expansions it made to the urban boundaries of some municipalities as part of its plan to build more homes.

CBC

On Monday, #Ontario's housing minister introduced legislation, the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, to return land from Ontario's protected #Greenbelt that his government had previously removed for housing.

"We want to make progress on building 1.5 million homes but ultimately this was not how the people of the province of Ontario wanted us to do that," #MunicipalAffairs and #HousingMinister #PaulCalandra said at a news conference.

#Environment

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-greenbelt-land-reversal-bill-1.6994997

Ontario government tables bill to return lands it removed back to Greenbelt | CBC News

Ontario's housing minister introduced legislation Monday to return land from Ontario's protected Greenbelt that his government had previously removed for housing.

CBC
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/08/31/doug-ford-greenbelt-housing-minister-steve-clark/ I believe the reporters asking hard-hitting questions were Colin DMello, Global and Siobhan Morris, CTV. Keep it up! #FordCrimeFamily #DougFord #HousingMinister #GreenbeltScandal #Onpoli #Global #CTV
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Federal government should have stayed in housing game, minister says

Housing Minister Sean Fraser says the federal government should have never got out of the housing business even as high-income professionals struggle to find affordable housing.

Global News

#HouseOfLords
Report from the #CommissionerForStandards
The conduct of #LordBarwell

@PeteApps on Twitter: "Former #HousingMinister and chief of staff to Theresa May, #GavinBarwell (now Lord), has been found #InBreach of the House of Lord's #CodeOfConduct for not registering clients to his personal consultancy business"
"He is, of course, involved in the #GrenfellTower story - having failed to respond to several warnings about fire safety as housing minister"

#GTTO

https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/lords-commissioner-for-standards/the-conduct-of-lord-barwell.pdf

B.C. housing minister in the Okanagan ‘listening and learning’ as he takes aim at the housing crisis

Thursday, B.C.'s new housing minister Ravi Kahlon was in Vernon getting a sense of the housing situation as he starts work to tackle one of the province's biggest problems.

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‘It’s miserable’: CRAB Park resident can’t wait to leave as province finalizes action plan for encampments

Two months after David Eby promised to address encampments on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the province is finalizing an action plan to get vulnerable populations housed.

Global News