Liberals Release Plan to ‘Solve the Housing Crisis,’ Branding It as a Call to Action

The federal Liberals have unveiled their plan to solve the housing crisis, building on recent announcements with new tax incentives, more than a billion dollars for homelessness, and a country-wide effort to build more housing on public lands. The 28-page document, which comes days ahead of the federal budget, is the minority government’s latest effort to set the agenda on affordability as it loses significant ground to the Conservatives over cost-of-living issues. Ottawa is also sending a message to provinces, territories, and municipalities that they too will need to step up, dubbing the plan a “call to action.” “There’s no way that one level of government is going to solve the national housing crisis on their own,” said Housing Minister Sean Fraser in an interview....