{"id":33544,"date":"2025-12-09T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/carney-announces-400m-joint-fund-with-city-of-ottawa-for-affordable-housing\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:04:31","slug":"carney-announces-400m-joint-fund-with-city-of-ottawa-for-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/carney-announces-400m-joint-fund-with-city-of-ottawa-for-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney announces $400M joint fund with city of Ottawa for affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is partnering with the City of Ottawa to put $400 million toward building up to 3,000 affordable homes in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Carney says the city will speed up the construction of homes by waiving development charges, permit fees and property taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Build Canada Homes, the federal home building agency, will help finance the construction of 2,000 of these units on federally owned land.<\/p>\n<p>Carney says construction will begin next year.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is meanwhile putting $1.2 million into a pilot project aimed at finding new ways to address addiction issues in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Sutcliffe also says retired general Rick Hillier will head a task force aimed at finding more economic opportunities for Ottawa-based defence companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/12\/carney-announces-400m-joint-fund-with-city-of-ottawa-for-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] OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is partnering with the City of Ottawa to put &#8230; <a title=\"Carney announces $400M joint fund with city of Ottawa for affordable housing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/carney-announces-400m-joint-fund-with-city-of-ottawa-for-affordable-housing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Carney announces $400M joint fund with city of Ottawa for affordable housing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-33544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33544","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=33544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}