1

Creating an immediate housing safety net to protect Canadians from the impacts of an economic shock.

This includes introducing housing focused benefits, bolstering social assistance, putting up guardrails to protect mortgages, and preparing Canada for an increase in asylum seekers.

2

Protecting renters from falling into homelessness.

With the risk of increased predatory market practices commonly seen in times of economic vulnerability, Canada needs to introduce measures including a freeze on nofault evictions, support for rent banks, and introducing funds to support the acquisition and preservation of lower rent housing, to ensure that people can keep their housing.

3

Doubling the share of community housing. 

Through new policy tools such as a housing bond and an affordable housing tax credit, along with expanding and modifying existing CMHC programs, Canada can support the building, acquisition, and preservation of community and affordable housing.

4

Ensuring access to the land and infrastructure needed to build communities. 

This includes expanding the Build Canada program, supporting the repurposing surplus and underutilized lands for housing, and identifying and incentivizing the use of municipal land to build community and affordable housing.

6

Developing a housing skills agenda for Canada that equips our workforce. 

This could include measures that support the re-skilling of displaced manufacturing workers into housingrelated careers and efforts to recruit skilled trade workers wishing to leave the United States.

7

Reforming taxes to facilitate home building. 

We must ensure that governments have the revenue they need for infrastructure and support, while also ensuring that taxes, charges, fees, and levies around homebuilding do not hinder development. This includes introducing incentives and supporting new models to build infrastructure instead of relying on development charges.

8

Streamlining permissions to facilitate home building. 

Communities can do this by ensuring that our homebuilding, through regulatory streamlining, are incenting development and leading to improved housing outcomes.

9

Accelerating innovation to build faster, less expensive, and better homes. 

There is no sustainable solution to Canada’s housing crisis that does not involve increased innovation – through tax credits, investment funds, and improved procurement practices, Canada can incentivize low-carbon housing and accelerate the adoption of innovative and new homebuilding technologies and practices.