Canada

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A coalition of housing experts, advocates and industry representatives are calling on the government to overhaul its policies to get more rental units built.

This is from a new report titled A Multi-Sector Approach to Ending Canada's Rental Housing Crisis, co-authored by Mike Moffatt, founding director of the PLACE Centre at the Smart Prosperity Institute, Tim Richter, president & CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, and Michael Brooks, head of REALPAC, a group that represents 130 real estate firms.

The report, being released Tuesday, makes a number of recommendations to address a dearth in rental units in Canada's largest cities.

One of the report's key recommendations calls on the federal government to take on a leadership role and co-ordinate with provinces, territories and municipalities to ensure that more rental units are built.

Brooks said that costs to the industry have increased to the point where the number of construction projects for rental units is likely to drop significantly in the coming years.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has suggested in the past that the federal government should tie infrastructure funding to municipalities to local housing permit approvals.

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