Cape Breton Regional Municipality is offering developers new grants and tax breaks to increase affordable housing in the area.

The incentives are available under two new policies approved this week to spend $11.4 million in funding from the federal housing accelerator fund.

"Since I've been on council, one of our first objectives when we all sat down together was talking about removing some red tape and incentivizing building and this is exactly what's happened," CBRM Coun. Glenn Paruch said Tues…