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House Hansard - 67

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 9, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 67 - May/9/22
Hon. Ahmed Hussen (Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, Lib.)
  • May/9/22 2:30:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with the hon. member that we need to build more rental housing in Canada. That is why, as part of the national housing strategy, we have the rental construction financing initiative, a program that has increased so many times over the last number of budgets because we recognize that as a government we have a responsibility to build the next generation of affordable rental units across the country. In addition to that, while we were building more rentals, we introduced the Canada housing benefit, which we are topping up in budget 2022. We agree that we need to tackle speculation and agree that we need to build more rental housing, and that is exactly what we are doing.
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Context: House Hansard - 67 - May/9/22
Mr. Louis Plamondon (Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel, BQ)
  • May/9/22 4:09:13 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-19 
Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. At the beginning of his speech, he spoke a lot about the need for new housing. However, the housing announced in the budget will not be available for another two or three years, because housing cannot be built instantaneously. Still, there may be a way to help people find housing. For example, in some regions, Airbnb has taken over 20, 25 or 30 housing units so that it can profit off of renting them out by the day or the week. Would this not be a way to control these companies, to ensure that these units remain permanent rental units for residents?
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