Calandra held a press conference on Thursday, the same week he took over the portfolio after Steve Clark resigned in the wake of two scathing Greenbelt reports.
The auditor general and the integrity commissioner found that the housing minister’s chief of staff favoured certain developers over others when selecting which lands would come out of the Greenbelt for housing.
Calandra said yesterday that a planned review of the Greenbelt could see even more land removed, but set out today to put a positive spin on action the government is taking to build 1.5 million homes by 2031.He touted the progress on implementing recommendations from a February 2022 housing affordability task force report, saying that a website would soon be launched with updates, but when asked for details a spokesperson only sent a copy of the prepared remarks Calandra had read.
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