{"id":33774,"date":"2026-01-01T00:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/guelph-gets-3-6m-in-provincial-funding-to-build-more-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:50:16","slug":"guelph-gets-3-6m-in-provincial-funding-to-build-more-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/guelph-gets-3-6m-in-provincial-funding-to-build-more-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Guelph gets $3.6M in provincial funding to build more homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>GUELPH\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Ontario government is awarding the City of Guelph with $3.69 million\u00a0through the second round of the Building Faster Fund because the city has achieved at least 80\u00a0per cent of its provincially mandated housing targets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release, Guelph broke ground on 1,279\u00a0new homes in\u00a02024, achieving more than 85\u00a0per cent of its 2024\u00a0housing target.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the city is also getting more than $2\u00a0million through the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program that will enable the construction of nearly 2,000\u00a0new homes.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/release\/1003397\/to-build-more-homes-ontario-launching-building-faster-fund-and-expanding-strong-mayor-powers\" target=\"_blank\">Announced in August\u00a02023<\/a>, the Building Faster Fund is a three-year, $1.2\u00a0billion program that is designed to encourage municipalities to speed up approval processes and get more homes built faster.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/projects\/2025\/12\/guelph-gets-3-6m-in-provincial-funding-to-build-more-homes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] GUELPH\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Ontario government is awarding the City of Guelph with $3.69 million\u00a0through the second round of the Building Faster &#8230; <a title=\"Guelph gets $3.6M in provincial funding to build more homes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/guelph-gets-3-6m-in-provincial-funding-to-build-more-homes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Guelph gets $3.6M in provincial funding to build more homes\">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-33774","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\/33774","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=33774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}