{"id":51,"date":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/condosconnection-com\/2026\/10\/17\/private-sector-must-lead-canadas-housing-response-carleton-expert-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","slug":"private-sector-must-lead-canadas-housing-response-carleton-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/private-sector-must-lead-canadas-housing-response-carleton-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Private sector must lead Canada&#8217;s housing response, Carleton expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Canada has made progress on housing reform but still faces a significant affordability and supply crisis. Housing starts are about 250,000 annually, far below the 400,000-470,000 needed. Rapid population growth has worsened the shortage. Residential construction supports over 1.2 million jobs and $213 billion in investment. Development charges, which can add up to 16% of new home costs, are a major barrier. Reducing fees and approval delays could boost housing supply.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/economic\/2026\/10\/private-sector-must-lead-canadas-housing-response-carleton-expert-says\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has made progress on housing reform but still faces a significant affordability and supply crisis. Housing starts are about 250,000 annually, far below the 400,000-470,000 needed. Rapid population growth has worsened the shortage. Residential construction supports over 1.2 million jobs and $213 billion in investment. Development charges, which can add up to 16% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.condosconnection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}