The City of Edmonton announced Monday it has found affordable housing providers to build about 1,300 new homes on 10 former surplus school sites.

“The impacts are going to be many more affordable homes for Edmontonians who have been struggling with affordability,” Mayor Andrew Knack said while making the announcement at city hall.

Assisted Living and Social Services Minister Jason Nixon also announced that the province and federal government would be chipping in $200 million to build thousands more affordable homes across the province.

The funding is part of the Affordable Housing Partnership Program which was launched by the provincial government in 2022.

“There's a lot of great projects out there. They may not get built for a year or so, and that's fine. We'll fund them in a year,” s

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