Here's more about Ottawa's plan to turn post offices, historic armouries into housing

The idea, outlined in the federal budget released Tuesday, is to use federally owned sites across the country to help ease the Canada-wide housing crunch.The federal government is Canada's largest landowner.

On the National Defence front, the budget says the government is looking"to divest 14 surplus properties that have potential for housing," and it lists six of them in the document.Finance Canada said in some cases, that could look like adding apartments above an existing one-storey post office building.

The government also listed three Canada Post properties in Quebec, in Trois-Rivières, Beauharnois and Roxboro, and two in B.C., in North Vancouver and Port Moody.— 87 St-Louis St., Quebec City: The Sewell House National Historic Site of Canada is a two-storey stone house built in 1803 and 1804 for Jonathan Sewell, then chief justice of Lower Canada.

— Brigadier Murphy Armoury, Vernon, B.C.: The armoury, built in 1913, is"a two-storey drill hall with simple horizontal massing and modest but strong detailing." An article in the Vernon Morning Star in 2016 said its future was uncertain following a review by the Department of National Defence. People could also call former federal office buildings home, with the government spending $1.1 billion to cut its office space in half.

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