Budget 2022: Housing supply gets $10B boost; feds add measures to curb speculation

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The Liberal government will try to ease Canada’s housing crisis with more than $10 billion in funding meant to speed up home construction and repairs as well as through a ban on home buying by foreign investors and tax measures to reduce speculation, while at the same time adding help for those trying to get into the market.

The commitments make up one of the biggest areas of spending in the federal budget unveiled Thursday, though the plans rely heavily on cooperation with other levels of government and the private sector.

The spending includes $4 billion in a broad accelerator fund for municipalities to help with planning and delivery of housing, with a target of 100,000 new units over five years. Commitments also include $4.3 billion in spending for Indigenous communities over seven years, including $2.4 billion for on-reserve housing, though those figures are far short of what advocates say is needed.

“We recognize that the central challenge in Canada when it comes to housing is a lack of supply,” Freeland said during a press conference Thursday afternoon, emphasizing that the budget targeted the supply side of the housing equation while acknowledging other levels of government will be needed to execute the plan fully.

 

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timhudak “which include the end to blind bidding, would undermine consumer choice.” Someone has been drinking too much kook-aid. This helps people buying as they won’t have to listen to realtors lie about higher offers when they could save $10,000’s for not having to over bid!

What a joke. They’re making promises beyond 2025. Clearly another liberal false promise.

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Maybe working with the banks and have different tiers of interest rate based on the number of mortgages. It is too cheap to borrow money for these investors to buy houses and jack up rent price.

This is not immediate but over 10 years. No clear plan for immediate or in the very near future.

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Federal budget 2022 to include $10-billion for affordable housingFinance Minister Chrystia Freeland will also unveil a small business tax break, green initiatives and $8-billion in new military spending 100k new homes means nothing if the urban planning around them isn't walk/transport-centric and the economy is still asset based. how much of those homes are allocated towards affordability projs and NOT lotteries? I see the LiberalsNDP are espousing thier propaganda blaming housing prices on foreign buyers. It was LiberalsNDP largese forCERBEI had people sitting on money started bidding war's for housing INFLATION.BoC low interest rate had people borrowing money for housing and renovations All the people who had to pay way too much for their homes over the last 5 years are going to love subsidizing other people’s house too.
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