The City of Dieppe, N.B., had a record year for housing permits, according to new data from 2024.
Following a housing needs assessment, council adopted its first ever housing strategy in 2024.
“The housing strategy will have four principal goals that will seek to form partnerships, to look at increasing incentive programs for non-market housing, also looking at reviewing some of our bylaws to see if they’re currently up to date and to see if there’s anything that could be done to accelerate the development in one form or another,” said planning and development director Alexandre Girard. “Another is to increase capacity for the municipality to sit down with developers and see if there’s opportunities for financing at the federal and provincial level.”
Girard says just under 1,200 new housing units were approved for construction in 2024. He says the city is on track to meet the projected need for the growing population.
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