Ottawa is one of six cities initially selected as sites for the development of 4,000 factory-built homes on federal land

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Six cities were initially selected as sites for the development of 4,000 factory-built homes on federal land, with the capacity to scale up to 45,000. Ottawa is one of them.

Around $1 billion will go toward transitional and

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