{"id":801270,"date":"2026-07-14T12:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801270\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:33:05","slug":"calgary-housing-opens-new-mount-pleasant-mixed-income-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801270\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Housing opens new Mount Pleasant mixed-income development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY, ALTA. \u2014 Calgary Housing (CH) has opened its first non-market housing development acting as the City of Calgary\u2019s development manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Located\u00a0in\u00a0the Mount Pleasant\u00a0neighbourhood,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.constructconnect.com\/details\/6596359-rfp-d-b-design-build-of-mount-pleasant-affordable-housing-project&amp;find_loc=-T2P-4K7?utm_campaign=DCN%2FJOC%20WPP%20Referral&amp;utm_source=CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">16-home mixed-income development<\/a>RFP Mount Pleasant Affordable Housing ProjectStatusAwardValue$7.9MLocation2020 6th Street NW, Calgary ABSectorPublic \u2013 CityTypeMulti-ResidentialData as of July 13, 2026<a class=\"wpp-ccpi-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.constructconnect.com\/details\/6596359-rfp-d-b-design-build-of-mount-pleasant-affordable-housing-project&amp;find_loc=-T2P-4K7?utm_campaign=DCN%2FJOC%20WPP%20Referral&amp;utm_source=CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">View Project Page \u2192<\/a> will provide\u00a0housing for\u00a045 residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Construction began in April 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The homes are located near a small playground, an\u00a0off-leash dog park, schools and commercial corridors on 16 Avenue N.W. and Centre Street N.W.<\/p>\n<p>They feature sustainable design elements\u00a0and materials that require less maintenance and\u00a0save\u00a024\u00a0per cent\u00a0more energy than minimum building codes, a release reads. Solar panels and cold-climate air-source heat pumps with back-up natural gas furnaces are also included.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Housing\u2019s $7.9 million\u00a0construction\u00a0budget\u00a0included $3.5\u00a0million in contributions from the\u00a0Government\u00a0of Alberta,\u00a0of which\u00a0$1.5 million\u00a0was allocated\u00a0via\u00a0the Affordable Housing Partnership Program, a joint funding\u00a0program\u00a0from the province and the Government of Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY, ALTA. \u2014 Calgary Housing (CH) has opened its first non-market housing development acting as the City of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-801270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801270","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=801270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}