~BW Uzelman
The housing affordability crisis is a serious and pervasive problem. Ontario and British Columbia have most actively addressed the issue, but all provincial governments have taken too long to react.
The federal government has been even more tardy. The Liberals proposed the $4 billion Housing Accelerator Fund in the election campaign in August of 2021. The “Accelerator” program was unsuitably named; it was eight months into the Liberals’ mandate before it was introduced in the 2022 Budget, 14 more months for the application portal to open and yet another three months for the first agreement with a municipality.