The Alberta government said it will be changing the city charters for Calgary and Edmonton to limit potential housing cost increases while supporting housing needs in the cities.
Two city-owned sites available to non-profit organizations for future housing projects, but one councillor says the plan doesn’t address the immediacy of the crisis.
Two-thousand Calgarians are on a list waiting for affordable housing, and some have resorted to living in encampments that will eventually get dismantled.
Calgary will benefit from $228 million in funding through the Housing Accelerator Fund after the federal government supported the city’s recently approved housing strategy.