Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she stopped at a lately constructed downtown Victoria rental condominium constructing Monday earlier than assembly with British Columbia Premier David Eby, the place housing was slated to prime the agenda.
Freeland says her cease on the 23-storey Hudson House helped her spotlight Canada’s must construct extra houses expeditiously.
She says Hudson House, constructed with $100 million from the federal authorities’s Apartment Construction Loan Program, offers rental flats to 245 households, and is a component of a bigger neighbourhood improvement of 950 houses throughout six buildings.
Freeland says housing will likely be a serious element of the federal authorities’s upcoming finances, attributable to be tabled subsequent month.
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The federal authorities lately introduced it should make investments $2 billion within the B.C. New Democrat authorities’s lately introduced BC Builds program to construct extra middle-income rental housing to assist firefighters, paramedics and cops and others stay within the communities the place they work.
Freeland says the federal authorities is trying to incorporate a number of the authorities’s housing program throughout Canada.
“For me, it’s actually pretty simple,” she says concerning the coming finances. “It’s housing, housing, housing. Supply, supply, supply, affordability, a strong economic plan that delivers great jobs and a real focus on younger Canadians.”
