The Energy Mix
Summary
Canada should build a million affordable homes for low- and middle-income households in a “nation-building” project that devotes 1% of the country’s GDP to non-market housing, while setting a high green standard for new construction under the new Build Canada Homes program, according to two separate advocacy pushes released last week.
“We wholeheartedly support the federal government stepping in to spur much-needed affordable housing construction,” a group of 111 businesses, tradespeople, and climate organizations said [pdf] in an open letter to Robertson and Prime Minister Mark Carney released by Stand.earth.
But “we would like to see these new homes use the most modern technologies for heating and cooling air and water,” they added. “Rather than building these homes with antiquated oil or gas heating, residents of Canada would greatly benefit from homes that come equipped with high-efficiency electric heat pumps or other low-carbon alternatives like high-efficiency direct electric or geothermal district heating.”
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