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Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter will pitch in to help address Edmonton’s affordable housing needs, Habitat for Humanity officials announced Monday.

With Carter’s support and funding from other philanthropists, Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan will see 75 new homes built next year. Here are the details:

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What’s Carter’s involvement?

For the past 33 years, the former president and his wife, Rosalynn, have picked one country a year to visit with their volunteers for a focused construction effort. Carter will visit Edmonton from July 9-14, 2017, before heading to Winnipeg.

“Housing affordability is at an all-time low,” he said of his decision to support Canada in 2017.

What’s being built?

Fort Saskatchewan will get 16 homes on Red Canyon Way. Edmonton will get almost 60 in Laurel, a new neighbourhood in the deep south. They will be primarily duplex and tri-plex homes, built with 500 hours of “sweat equity” from each family involved, said Oryssia Lennie, head of the board for Habitat for Humanity Edmonton.