Justin Trudeau is under fire for Ottawa’s lacklustre response to the housing crisis. Here is what’s going so wrong

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Housing is emerging as a major political and economic challenge for the Liberal government as advocates, business groups and opposition parties clamour for action to bring down housing costs, while rising interest rates put the pinch on homeowners with mortgages.

Sure, it’s advertised at more than $82 billion in loans and cash. But the federal government’s national housing plan is little help to Pastor Alexander Wilson.

He and his dwindling congregation at St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church in Scarborough want to raze their long-standing site of worship and build an apartment complex in its place. It wasn’t an easy decision, but Wilson said some in his flock have turned their minds to what they might leave behind “once they’re finished here on Earth.” Their latest plan is for 111 units, with about a third of them offering rents below market rates.

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