GOVERNMENT TAKES THEN GOVERNMENT GIVES

First, the City approves the demolition of 500 affordable rental units on federal land. The City's plan is to allow developers to build a mix of new single-family and multi-residential homes mostly for private sale which will result in the neighbourhood’s current residents losing their affordable rental homes. This was followed by the Federal Government's announcement of Edmonton being given $175 million to spur the construction of thousands more homes in the next three years. Of the homes to be built just over one-third, are expected to be “affordable housing,” another city website states without citing a definition for “affordability.”