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CASH, CANINES, CONFETTI — DOUG FORD was in London with Housing Minister ROB FLACK, who (sort of) fleshed out the changes that are coming to the way the province doles out housing-enabling infrastructure cash from its Building Faster Fund.

To wit: Municipalities have long complained that tying the fund — and the giant cheques that come with it — to when construction starts is unfair, because while cities and towns green-light the approvals, they can’t control when a builder starts building. Mayors have said the current BFF rubric punishes cities for factors beyond their control, like interest rates and the market slowing down.

Flack didn’t spell out what’s coming — as he said at AMO, he’s in talks with civic stakeholders and “the details are not worked out” — but he did say what it won’t be:

“Permits are not homes…We want to see real results. So, seeing homes built, foundations in the ground, knowing that we’re going to get roofs over peop…