Canada aims to make homes affordable — but without crushing prices
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But Canada’s new housing czar has a message of reassurance for the nation’s homeowners — it also doesn’t want to drive down prices.,” Housing Minister Sean Fraser said in his first interview with Bloomberg News since he took the job on July 26. “Our goal is to build more units that are at a price that other people, who don’t currently have their needs met, can afford.
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