Everyone deserves a place to call home. However, for many across the country, home ownership and renting are out of reach due to the housing crisis Canada is facing. We need to build more homes, faster, to get Canadians into homes that meet their needs, at prices they can afford. That's why in Budget 2024 and Solving the Housing Crisis: Canada's Housing Plan, the federal government announced the most ambitious housing plan in Canadian history: a plan to build 4 million more homes.
As part of this plan, the Government of Canada is identifying properties within its portfolio that have the potential for housing and is actively adding them to the Canada Public Land Bank. Wherever possible, the government will turn these properties into housing through a long-term lease, to support affordable housing and ensure public land stays public.
Today, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, joined by the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, announced that 12 new properties have been added to the Canada Public Land Bank. These additional properties will create close to 3,900 units of housing for middle-class Canadians.
The 12 new properties included in the Canada Public Land Bank are:
1. Calgary, Alberta - Currie - Phase 14, Block 27A, at the corner of Calais Drive and Breskens Street Southwest
2. Calgary, Alberta - Currie - Phase 14, Block 31B, at the corner of Bessborough Drive and Breskens Street Southwest
3. Calgary, Alberta - Currie - Phase 12C, at the corner of Bessborough Drive and Quesnay Wood Drive
4. Edmundston, New Brunswick - 22 Emerson Street
5. Grand Falls, New Brunswick - 373-377 Broadway Boulevard
6. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - 15 Iroquois Drive
7. Bracebridge, Ontario - 98 Manitoba Street
8. London, Ontario - 451 Talbot Street
9. Ottawa, Ontario - 529 Richmond Road
10. Laval, Quebec - Montée Saint-François - Laval Penitentiary
11. Laval, Quebec - Vacant land next to 1575 Chomedey Boulevard
12. Whitehorse, Yukon - 419-421 Range Road
