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Lobbying by CHRA Canadian Housing and Renewal Association: its registrations, its lobbyists, the bills it has named and every meeting it has reported with federal office holders since November 2021.

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Organization

CHRA Canadian Housing and Renewal Association

Meetings this Parliament
51
With MPs
7
Since Nov 2021
181
Active registrations
1

Most recent reported meeting: Sep 18, 2026.

Registrations in effect

In-house (organization) In effect since Dec 31, 2025 Receives government funding

Filed by Raymond Sullivan, Executive Director

Lobbyists

  • Kenneth Milner · Director of Policy and Government Relations
  • Raymond Sullivan · Executive Director
  • Vena Beckford · Director of Indigenous Housing Policy & Programs

Institutions they may lobby: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Finance Canada (FIN), House of Commons, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat (IGA), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Privy Council Office (PCO), Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Senate of Canada

What they're lobbying on (11)
  • Simplifying or clarifying tax rules that impede the effective operations or development of community housing.
  • The creation of an incentives for private sector investment in affordable housing projects, while maintaining non-profit and municipal management.
  • Recognizing that the federal government has a permanent role in supporting community housing through ongoing rental subsidies, backed by a predictable, long-term funding framework.
  • That the government provide funding and financing to support the growth of for-Indigenous, by-Indigenous urban, rural, and northern Indigenous housing.
  • That the federal government must lead a collaborative effort with provincial and territorial governments to create shared housing initiatives to develop a stronger community housing sector in Canada.
  • That the government make a long-term commitment of funding and financing designed to support the creation, repair, and renewal of community housing
  • That the government leverage federally owned land for the use of creating housing.
  • Provide stabilized pre-development funding for community housing providers to ensure that there is a strong development pipeline of affordable housing products
  • Investing in a Canada Community Housing Growth Fund aimed at building a strong and robust community housing sector in Canada.
  • The full and timely rollout of the Rental Protection Fund to support community housing providers to buy existing rental properties and preserve affordability.
  • 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.

Registration 950379-233781-38. Look it up in the official Registry

Reported meetings

Spreadsheet

Filed by Raymond Sullivan (180), Jeff Morrison (1).

  • Reported by Raymond Sullivan · In-house (organization)

    • Marilou McPhedran · Senator, Senate of Canada

    Aboriginal AffairsHousing

    Official report

  • Reported by Raymond Sullivan · In-house (organization)

    • Soraya Martinez-Ferrada · Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion (Housing), House of Commons

    Aboriginal AffairsBudgetHousingMunicipalitiesTaxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Raymond Sullivan · In-house (organization)

    • Jenny Kwan · Member of Parliament for Vancouver East

    Aboriginal AffairsBudgetHousingTaxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Raymond Sullivan · In-house (organization)

    • Jagmeet Singh · NDP Leader and Member of Parliament for Burnaby South, House of Commons

    Aboriginal AffairsHousingTaxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Raymond Sullivan · In-house (organization)

    • Kyle Fox · Policy Advisor, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
    • Micah Richardson · Policy Advisor, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    Aboriginal AffairsHousingTaxation and Finance

    Official report

  • Reported by Jeff Morrison · In-house (organization)

    • Ahmed Hussen · Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, Infrastructure Canada (INFC)

    Aboriginal AffairsHousing

    Official report

From the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying's open data, published November 5, 2026. Reports cover oral, arranged meetings with designated public office holders since November 22, 2021; lobbyists file them by the 15th of the following month. Names of MPs are matched to the current House of Commons, and bills are linked when the lobbyist's own description makes clear which bill it means. Contains information licensed under the Open Data Licence Agreement — Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying. Licence. PolitiKit is independent and is not endorsed by the Commissioner of Lobbying.