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Party Platform: Housing
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LIBERAL
PARTY OF CANADA
on
Housing
Leader: The Right Hon. Paul Martin
Prime Minister
Paul Martin announced $1.5 billion in new funding for housing
over five years. In addition, he will keep intact current funding
for programs that renovate aging housing (the Residential Rehabilitation
Assistance Program - RRAP) and that help the homeless (the Supporting
Community Partnership Initiative – SCPI). CHRA estimates
the Liberal announced today will produce a total of 35,000 to
60,000 new units over the next five years.
Liberal
candidate Richard Mahoney announced last week his party is considering
placing savings from the current investment in social housing
(that will be realized once operating agreements expire) into
a national
non-profit housing foundation, "Housing Works". This
promise is in line with the recommendations of the Expiry of
Operating Agreement's (EOA) final report. The Prime Minister
has also promised to look at better ways to get more housing
built faster, like a national non-profit housing foundation
called “Housing Works” that has been studied by CHRA.
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NEW
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF CANADA
on
Housing
Leader: Mr. Jack
Layton
NDP leader
Jack Layton has made investment in affordable housing one of
the key messages of his election campaign, almost always listing
housing as one of the key elements of infrastructure. Mr. Layton
has indicated that his party will push for an ambitious investment
in social housing. The NDP platform pledges:
- A 10-year
national housing program to build 200,000 affordable and co-op
housing units, renovate 100,000 existing units, and provide
rent supplements to 40,000 low-income tenants.
- Tax
incentives to renovate buildings in downtown cores.
- To use
the profits generated by CMHC to underwrite low-interest mortgages
for affordable housing, and to change CMHC's mandate to facilitate/fund
community-based housing organizations.
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BLOC
QUÉBÉCOIS
on
Housing
Leader: Mr. Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe
considère insuffisantes les sommes promises par Paul
Martin pour le logement social (1,5 milliard $ par année
sur cinq ans). M. Duceppe rappele que ces sommes ne s’approchent
pas des revendications du Bloc Québécois et des
groupes sociaux voulant qu’Ottawa consacre 1 % de ses dépenses
au développement du logement social au cours des prochaines
années, soit près de 2 milliards $ par an d’ici
trois ans.
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CONSERVATIVE
PARTY OF CANADA
on
Housing
Leader: Mr.
Stephen Harper
The Conservative
platform acknowledges that many “Canadians on moderate
and fixed incomes have been hit particularly hard in recent
years” but says that “to address these rising costs,
the Conservative party will offer low tax solutions.”
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Source: Canadian
Housing and Renewal Association
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