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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has defended the lack of new funding for affordable housing in the 2023 federal budget, pointing to the billions of dollars announced in the previous budget, including the Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy, and the Housing Accelerator Fund. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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