Liberal housing strategy will need ‘both carrots and sticks’ to break through affordable housing stalemate: observers

The Liberals should abandon the idea of public lands as a revenue resource and go-all in on affordability, says CHRA's Ray Sullivan.
Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Minister Sean Fraser speaks to reporters as he arrives for the Liberal caucus meeting in West Block on April 17.

The federal government’s plan to build thousands of homes on surplus and underutilized federal land shows that the Liberals have finally “gotten the message” that housing will be a make-or-break issue in the upcoming election, and a healthy willingness to "pluck opposi...

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