Build Canada Homes — Ottawa's flagship affordable-housing agency, launched a year ago — has started just 2,000 units. Industry leaders warn the pace must multiply many times over to matter.
Canada needs hundreds of thousands of homes. Two thousand is a pilot, not a program. Year two decides whether this was policy or press release.
The 6ix's housing crisis doesn't grade on effort. Rents don't care about announcements — only keys. Every young artist couch-surfing between gigs is the metric that matters.
Sources: CBC News. Context from the Young Hadene newsroom.
The federal affordable-housing agency launched last year.
2,000 starts draws 'too slow' verdicts from industry.
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