Calgary has officially launched the Backyard Suites Incentive Program , and applications are now open. The City’s goal is straightforward: reduce some of the cost and friction that keeps homeowners from adding backyard suites (also called laneway houses, carriage houses, garden suites, or garage suites )—a housing type the City describes as underutilized in Calgary (fewer than 400 existed at the program launch). The program is also positioned as part of “missing middle” housi