Housing experts say budget doesn’t address needs of ‘the other missing middle’

A return to 1970s and 1980s levels of affordable rental housing would require deeper engagement with provinces, says former public servant.

Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen, pictured June 30, 2021, whose file was the centrepiece of this year's budget, has shifted programs within the National Housing Strategy to focus more on the lower end of the income spectrum, but critics say there is more to do. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

April 22, 2022

Two experts on affordable housing say the federal government's 2022 budget features incremental steps “in the right direction,” but without the scale or volume needed to make a real dent in the need for affordable housing. Ricardo Tranjan, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy...

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