Budget 2026 shifts Liberal government's language on home construction targets

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The federal housing minister’s office is reasserting Ottawa’s goal of doubling the pace of home construction — even though references to the Liberals’ hallmark affordability pledge were missing from Budget 2026.

OTTAWA — The federal housing minister’s office is reasserting Ottawa’s goal of doubling the pace of home construction — even though references to the Liberals’ hallmark affordability pledge were missing from Budget 2026. The budget, which was tabled last week, dropped any mention of that original target, which was introduced in the Liberals’ 2025 election platform and repeated numerous times in that year’s budget. Instead, the 511-page document outlines a new plan to triple the pace of non-market housing construction to 24,000 starts per year over the next decade.

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