{"id":934421,"date":"2026-10-15T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934421\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:54:30","slug":"st-thomas-gets-19-6m-amid-queens-park-ottawa-push-to-cut-housing-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934421\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas gets $19.6M amid Queen&#8217;s Park, Ottawa push to cut housing costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. Thomas is receiving nearly $20 million from Queen\u2019s Park and Ottawa through a program that cuts development charges and aims to decrease housing costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Provided through the federal and provincial governments\u2019 $8.8-billion development charge reduction program, the roughly $19.6 million was announced Thursday by Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Rob Flack alongside London West MP Arielle Kayabaga at the new Shaw Valley subdivision in the southwest end of St. Thomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flack, who is Ontario\u2019s municipal affairs and housing minister, called housing affordability a \u201ccrisis\u201d in his remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Thomas is receiving nearly $20 million from Queen\u2019s Park and Ottawa through a program that cuts development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[320420,49,48,320421,894,311860,21256,20739,320419],"class_list":["post-934421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-320420","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-category-st-thomas-times-journal","tag-federal-government","tag-london-free-press","tag-ontario-government","tag-ottawa","tag-st-thomas-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934421","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=934421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}