That the government ensures housing innovations achieve scale, by helping develop a robust innovation strategy for housing, including procurement policy and innovation centres for housing construction.
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Investing in a Canada Community Housing Growth Fund aimed at building a strong and robust community housing sector in Canada.
The adoption, as a guiding principle of federal housing policy, that the federal government has an ongoing, permanent role to play in the provision of rental subsidies for community housing. This includes the introduction of a predictable, guaranteed, long term rental subsidy framework that guarantees ongoing rental subsidies.
That the government support a fully funded Indigenous-governed urban, rural, and northern (URN) Indigenous Housing Centre to develop and deliver an URN Indigenous housing strategy.
Provide stabilized pre-development funding for community housing providers to ensure that there is a strong development pipeline of affordable housing products
The creation of an Affordable Housing Investment Tax Credit to incentivize private sector investment in affordable housing projects, while maintaining non-profit and municipal management
That the government leverage federally owned land by leasing it at low rates to community housing providers for the use of creating housing.
Upcoming and future federal budgets with respect to policies and programs that will support the creation, renewal, or operation of non-market, affordable, social, or community housing across Canada.
That the government should provide low-cost, long-term fixed-rate financing for constructing purpose-built rental housing
That the government make a long-term commitment of additional funds for non-repayable contributions for National Housing Strategy programs designed to support the creation, repair, and renewal of community housing
The full and timely rollout of the Rental Protection Fund to support community housing providers to buy existing rental properties and preserve affordability.
That the government must lead a collaborative effort with provincial and territorial leaders to create shared housing initiatives and targets for each level of government.