What’s behind Canada’s housing crisis? Decades of policy failures, says former deputy PM
Canada’s housing crunch is the result of decades of poor policy stemming from the federal government leaving the issue to the provinces in the 1980s, according to one former deputy prime minister.
Former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps said in an interview with BNN Bloomberg that when Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) was involved in building housing, there was a significant amount of national investment in housing as well as housing policy and strategy.
Acres of decrepit crime and drug ridden high rise eyesores. That’s what I think of when I hear the words government housing.
