Lobby Monitor: Despite falling out of the news spotlight, affordable housing continues to be a priority for the Liberal government, says Shaun Cathcart, director and senior economist at the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).
“We’ve gone from our housing agency saying ‘we need to double construction, but there’s no way to do it’ to ‘we’re actually going to try to do it and really scale something up,’” said Cathcart. “We hope that that work will continue this year, but obviously, there are other things that have popped up on the front burner for the government…but I still think it remains a number one priority.”…