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Ottawa’s Housing Accelerator Fund scores big in Alberta, but affordable home development still lags

The national housing fund has helped speed up the approval of close to 30,000 residential building permits in Alberta’s largest cities.

Calgary and Edmonton have been the poster children for the Housing Accelerator Fund, a federal incentive program launched in the spring of 2023 to bolster the supply of housing across the country by

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