Mayor hopes for movement on affordable housing issue
Posted Jan 2, 2015 7:07 am.
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Calgary’s mayor says there’s no question the city is in a housing crisis.
But, Naheed Nenshi says municipal and provincial politicians have been unwilling to do anything about it.
Nenshi adds there are no rules on how much a landlord can raise rents and no commitment from the province to build significant amounts of affordable housing.
In a year-end interview, he tells 660News his council has also been unwilling to make a decision on secondary suites.
“Thirty-five times council has said, ‘we want to do something but not this, come up with another idea.’ We’re going to get reports I think: 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40 in the next year and perhaps there will be something there that one more member of council can find.”
Nenshi says he doesn’t think it will happen during this term of council, but he hopes the issue will move forward.
