{"id":7029,"date":"2024-04-03T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:50:32","slug":"trudeau-pledges-6-billion-plus-for-housing-in-federal-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/04\/03\/trudeau-pledges-6-billion-plus-for-housing-in-federal-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau pledges $6 billion-plus for housing in upcoming federal budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7031\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7031\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/trudeaucpac-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/trudeaucpac-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/trudeaucpac-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/trudeaucpac-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/trudeaucpac.jpg 1645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Dartmouth on Tuesday to announce more than $6 billion in funding for housing initiatives. Sean Fraser, minister of housing, infrastructure and communities, is in the background. (CPAC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled more funding on Tuesday for affordable housing across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trudeau was in Dartmouth to announce the federal government will include more than $6 billion in the April 16 budget for housing initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund would help speed up construction or upgrade needed infrastructure to build more homes for Canadians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf we want build more homes faster, we also need to be upgrading critical water and wastewater infrastructure. \u2026 We\u2019ll launch the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund with a billion dollars available to be allocated in the short term for municipalities to support needs that will directly create more housing, and $5 billion for agreements with provinces and territories to support investments in long-term priorities paired with key provincial and territorial actions to boost housing supply.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The $5 billion would go to provinces over a longer period. Federal and provincial officials would have to negotiate the terms for that funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to The Canadian Press, provinces and territories would have to agree to a set of conditions, including a renters\u2019 bill of rights. The deadline for provinces to reach a deal with Ottawa would be Jan. 1, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And provinces would have to freeze development charges for three years. They would also have to adopt changes to the national building code and automatically approve homes that follow designs from the federal government\u2019s housing design catalogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trudeau said the government also plans to add another $400 million to the Housing Accelerator Fund to help make it easier at the municipal level to build more housing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled more funding on Tuesday for affordable housing across the country. Trudeau was in Dartmouth to announce the federal government will include more than $6 billion in the April 16 budget for housing initiatives. The Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund would help speed up construction or upgrade needed infrastructure to build more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[360,1981,1983,1602,384,1982,1980,1284],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-affordable-housing","tag-canada-housing-infrastructure-fund","tag-federal-budget","tag-federal-government","tag-housing","tag-housing-accelerator-fund","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-prime-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}