{"id":25,"date":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/radudemian-com\/2026\/10\/04\/ontario-and-ottawa-1b-for-housing-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","slug":"ontario-and-ottawa-1b-for-housing-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/04\/ontario-and-ottawa-1b-for-housing-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario and Ottawa: $1B for Housing Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/radu-demian\/ottawa-ontario-infrastructure-remotion-videos-a02f\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Ontario and the federal government each committed $500M, creating up to $1B for municipal infrastructure that supports more homes across the province.<br \/>\nFunding targets Ontario municipalities that do not collect development charges for roads, bridges, water systems, and similar basics tied directly to new housing growth.<br \/>\nOfficials said the partnership should lower up front costs, boost housing supply, and address a major barrier: building or upgrading infrastructure for development.<br \/>\nOntario municipalities have faced repair backlogs, higher construction costs, and limited funding, pressures a municipal association said hit rural, small, and northern communities hard.<br \/>\nApplications open Oct. 29, 2026, and projects are set for spring selection, as Ontario framed the plan as local economic support amid US tariff uncertainty.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario and the federal government each committed $500M, creating up to $1B for municipal infrastructure that supports more homes across the province. Funding targets Ontario municipalities that do not collect development charges for roads, bridges, water systems, and similar basics tied directly to new housing growth. Officials said the partnership should lower up front costs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radudemian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}