Budget 2026 Shifts Liberal Government's Language on Home Construction Targets
The budget instead sets a goal of 24,000 non-market starts a year and adds $13 billion for Build Canada Homes, officials said.
- Budget 2026 dropped the Liberal government's hallmark goal of doubling annual home construction, instead outlining a new plan to triple non-market housing starts to 24,000 per year over the next decade.
- Conservative housing critic Scott Aitchison accused the Liberals of quietly abandoning their promise, calling the new non-market focus "another Liberal housing illusion" that fails to restore affordability.
- Andy Yan, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University, deemed the original doubling target "more aspirational than realistic," questioning whether government has the capacity to meet such goals.
- On Tuesday, Housing Minister Gregor Robertson defended the government's record, pointing to statistics showing national housing starts are up more than 20 per cent since the pre-pandemic period.
- Build Canada Homes will receive $13 billion over 10 years under the budget, supporting the Crown corporation's efforts to reverse years of lagging social housing construction.
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The Toronto Star
Budget 2026 shifts Liberal government’s language on home construction targets
OTTAWA - The federal housing minister's office is reasserting Ottawa's goal of doubling the pace of home construction — even though references to the Liberals' hallmark affordability pledge were missing
Winnipeg Free Press
Budget 2026 shifts Liberal government's language on home construction targets
OTTAWA - The federal housing minister's office is reasserting Ottawa's goal of doubling the pace of home construction — even though references to the Liberals' hallmark affordability pledge were missing from Budget 2026.
Minister François-Philippe Champagne presented today in Ottawa the second budget of the Carney government. Entitled "Masters at Home", the 2026 federal budget echoes the slogan of Jean Lesage's Liberals, but actually gives the keys to the house to businesses. Measures to meet the needs of the population are numerous, but insufficient to address the most urgent problems, given that the government is keeping its course on a rapid return to fiscal …
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