{"id":24968,"date":"2024-02-22T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/prime-minister-announces-175-million-for-edmonton-to-help-build-affordable-housing\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:06:18","slug":"prime-minister-announces-175-million-for-edmonton-to-help-build-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/prime-minister-announces-175-million-for-edmonton-to-help-build-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime minister announces $175 million for Edmonton to help build affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Feb. 21, 2024 \u2013 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced $175 million in funding to fast-track more than 5,200 new housing units in Edmonton over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>The money will flow through the federal Housing Accelerator program and be used to eliminate barriers to getting the homes built.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau says the funds will create more housing options in the city, including more rentals, affordable apartments, and housing near university and college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau says over the past decade federal governments under both Liberal and Conservative banners stepped back from helping with housing and must re-engage.<\/p>\n<p>He says building affordable housing has become an intolerable challenge and it\u2019s time to work with municipalities to break down barriers and get the work done.<\/p>\n<p><em>This report by The Canadian Press was first published February 21, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/canadian-contractor\/prime-minister-announces-175-million-for-edmonton-to-help-build-affordable-housing\/1003293646\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=prime-minister-announces-175-million-for-edmonton-to-help-build-affordable-housing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Feb. 21, 2024 \u2013 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced $175 million in funding to fast-track more than 5,200 &#8230; <a title=\"Prime minister announces $175 million for Edmonton to help build affordable housing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/prime-minister-announces-175-million-for-edmonton-to-help-build-affordable-housing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prime minister announces $175 million for Edmonton to help build affordable housing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-24968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}