{"id":4,"date":"2026-08-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/shahins-ca\/2026\/08\/30\/b-c-and-ottawa-discuss-cutting-developer-fees-to-boost-housing-construction\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:00:00","slug":"b-c-and-ottawa-discuss-cutting-developer-fees-to-boost-housing-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/30\/b-c-and-ottawa-discuss-cutting-developer-fees-to-boost-housing-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. and Ottawa discuss cutting developer fees to boost housing construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>With over two decades in consulting and a master&#039;s in business, I pay close attention to the evolving policies shaping Greater Vancouver\u2019s housing landscape. Recently, B.C. and Ottawa have entered negotiations to reduce development cost charges by as much as 50% in high-growth regions. This initiative, backed by a $3.2 billion investment over 10 years, is set to support multi-unit housing and transform more than 2,200 unsold condos into affordable homes. These targeted measures could significantly impact housing supply and affordability\u2014key factors I continually analyze to help clients navigate this dynamic market.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/redfm.ca\/en-ca\/vancouver\/news-articles\/bc-and-ottawa-discuss-cutting-developer-fees-to-boost-housing-construction\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over two decades in consulting and a master&#039;s in business, I pay close attention to the evolving policies shaping Greater Vancouver\u2019s housing landscape. Recently, B.C. and Ottawa have entered negotiations to reduce development cost charges by as much as 50% in high-growth regions. This initiative, backed by a $3.2 billion investment over 10 years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shahins.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}