Build Canada Homes is ‘duplicating the bureaucracy’: NDP critic Kwan slams feds’ new affordable housing entity

Independent Senator Toni Varone says the new entity is a ‘brilliant’ first step and can be a ‘traffic cop’ between the key bodies focused on home-building and infrastructure.

NDP MP Jenny Kwan says the already-existing Crown corporation, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, is capable of overseeing housing affordability initiatives. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ELEANOR WAND

September 20, 2025

The launch of Build Canada Homes, the new federal entity which will oversee affordable housing starts on federal lands, is an “extremely disturbing” ste...

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