{"id":507865,"date":"2026-03-01T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:31:08","slug":"backyard-suites-incentive-program-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507865\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Suites Incentive Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary continues to respond to evolving housing needs by introducing the Backyard Suite Incentive Program.<\/p>\n<p>Applications open March 2, 2026.\u00a0Qualifying homeowners can apply for incentives that help make building a backyard suite easier.<\/p>\n<p>At the launch of the program there were fewer than 400 backyard suites in Calgary. The addition of missing middle housing contributes to a more diverse housing market, improving affordability for Calgarians.<\/p>\n<p>City of Calgary online engagement in fall 2025 found that of the nearly 700 people who responded, 88 per cent said they were interested in building a backyard suite or had already built one.<\/p>\n<p>This incentive program is designed to keep the community in mind by making homes that fit into existing neighbourhoods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary continues to respond to evolving housing needs by introducing the Backyard Suite Incentive Program. Applications open March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-507865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507865","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=507865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}