{"id":623713,"date":"2026-04-23T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:14:11","slug":"federal-government-goes-all-in-on-ottawa-with-eight-rental-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623713\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government goes all-in on Ottawa with eight rental projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still, CMHC and industry analysts warned that 2025\u2019s national lift in starts, including a 12% jump in Ottawa\u2013Gatineau, came from a weak base and that construction momentum risks\u00a0fading below long\u2011run averages through 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Record rental building masks\u00a0sharp slowdowns in Toronto and Vancouver, underscoring the gap between current output and the volume needed to restore affordability.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa package offers\u00a0one answer to that tension: lean harder into rental supply on public land, strip out local fees and insist on faster delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that would be enough to ease pressure on borrowers and investors in a high\u2011cost market remains\u00a0an open question, but the direction of travel is clear \u2013 governments expect\u00a0builders and lenders to treat accelerated rental construction as central to any mortgage\u2011market recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Local pipeline meets national slowdown fears<\/p>\n<p>Ana Bail\u00e3o, chief executive of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/ca\/glossary\/build-canada-homes\/562856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Build Canada Homes<\/a>, said the agency is designed to &#8220;scale up affordable housing by bringing public land, flexible financing, and modern methods of construction under one roof&#8221; and that Ottawa\u2019s projects &#8220;put that mandate into action&#8230; setting a new standard for speed and affordability in Canadian housing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, CMHC and industry analysts warned that 2025\u2019s national lift in starts, including a 12% jump in Ottawa\u2013Gatineau,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[77048,49,48,50543,7696,20739],"class_list":["post-623713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-build-canada-homes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-mortgage-and-housing-corporation","tag-housing-starts","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623713","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=623713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}