{"id":496773,"date":"2026-02-24T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496773\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:53:08","slug":"ottawa-spending-3-billion-to-boost-military-housing-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496773\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa spending $3 billion to boost military housing stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771955588_882_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFeb 24, 2026 | 10:39 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Defence Minister David McGuinty is announcing a $3.7-billion plan today to build more housing units for Canada\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>The government plans to add 6,000 more units with the money, in 25 communities where the Canadian Armed Forces operates.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s in addition to the 800 new units already underway.<\/p>\n<p>A report from Canada\u2019s auditor general last year brought to light how the military\u2019s housing units are getting older, are in poor condition, and how the military had a shortfall in available housing across multiple bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Feb 24, 2026 | 10:39 AM OTTAWA \u2014 Defence Minister David McGuinty is announcing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-496773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}