Feds seek to ‘raise profile of housing’ in cabinet as Hussen given job to tackle affordability, supply, and homelessness

Federal Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen will be busy in a complicated housing file in 2022, tasked with looking into an anti-flipping tax on residential properties, a temporary ban on foreign buyers of non-recreational residential property, and developing policies to curb excessive profits in investment properties.

Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen, pictured during a presser on affordable housing on June 30, 2021, alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson. Daniele Medlej, director of communications in Minister Hussen’s office, said that in the government’s approach to address the housing needs of Canadians, it 'must be focused on addressing issues on both the supply and management sides of the housing market.' The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

January 17, 2022

Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen will try to find the delicate balance between housing affordability and supply, say industry experts, an issue that has become more acute as millions of Canadians have hunkered down to work from home during the pandemic, and as entrants into the housing market across th...

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