VAUGHAN, Ont. - Liberal Leader Mark Carney says his government would double Canada’s rate of residential housing construction over the next decade to nearly 500,000 new homes per year.
Policy makers don’t need to be homebuilders - as long as they listen to them and learn what works for the industry. The new entity they’re promising seems to focus on ‘affordable housing’ which means publicly funded housing rather than being focused on resolving ‘housing affordability’ as a whole. But it will help supply regardless.
Policy makers don’t need to be homebuilders - as long as they listen to them and learn what works for the industry. The new entity they’re promising seems to focus on ‘affordable housing’ which means publicly funded housing rather than being focused on resolving ‘housing affordability’ as a whole. But it will help supply regardless.