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While the federal government and cities across Canada are making strides on expanding the housing supply, the provinces still need to get serious about building quality homes, a new report released Thursday argues.

No province earned a grade higher than C+ in the report assembled by the Task Force for Housing and Climate, a non-governmental body that was struck in 2023 with backing from the philanthropic Clean Economy Fund.

The task force’s “report card” evaluated governments based on their policies for building homes quickly and sustainably.

It gave the federal government the highest grade in the country — a B — while Alberta ranked at the bottom of the pile with a D+. The rest of the provinces’ scores were in the C range.

Mike Moffatt, the report’s author and founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative at the University of Ottawa, suggested that the provinces have thus far avoided “scrutiny” for their role in perpetuating the housing crisis, while Ottawa and …

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