US EditionCanada’s new housing minister doesn’t think prices need to come down
- Gregor Robertson became Canada's new housing and infrastructure minister in May 2025 amid controversy over his record on housing affordability in Vancouver.
- Robertson's appointment followed a decade as Vancouver mayor when benchmark home prices in Greater Vancouver more than doubled, mirroring national rises of 78 percent.
- He emphasized the need to increase housing supply to stabilize the market and rejected lowering prices as the solution, highlighting the huge shortage of affordable homes nationwide.
- Robertson described the Liberals' goal to double the rate of homebuilding as highly ambitious and noted that achieving it will require several years of effort and development.
- Despite criticism from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who blamed Robertson for high prices and called his appointment problematic, the government remains committed to supply-focused housing solutions.
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Critics fear Carney’s housing minister will nationalize Vancouver’s housing crisis
Source: FacebookAuthor: Quinn PatrickPrime Minister Mark Carney’s appointment of former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson as Canada’s new housing minister has sparked fears that he may implement the same disastrous housing policies nationally that contributed to Vancouver’s affordability crisis.Vancouver realtor Jay Coupar called Robertson in an interview with True North a “complete failure on all fronts” as mayor.“When I first saw that he was ap…
New housing minister's comments on maintaining price of homes are politically, mathematically off-base: experts
"We seem to want a housing market where sellers get high prices and buyers pay low prices, and that's just not nature of mathematics," housing expert Mike Moffatt told iPolitics.
ANALYSIS | Will the Liberals' campaign promises help fix the housing crisis?
On the campaign trail, Mark Carney’s Liberals promised Canadians the “most ambitious housing plan since the Second World War.” CBC News spoke with a construction industry leader, an economist, a human rights advocate and an urban planner about the plan.
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