Privacy Impact Assessment on the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund (CHIF)

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Privacy Impact Assessment on the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund (CHIF)

Description

On April 16, 2024, the Government of Canada released Budget 2024 which provided $6 billion in federal funding over 10 years to establish the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund (CHIF).

CHIF aims to accelerate the construction and upgrading of housing-enabling drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid-waste infrastructure, directly supporting the creation of new homes and increasing densification. This investment is part of the Government of Canada's commitment to address the impacts of the housing crisis on communities of all sizes across Canada. CHIF will be delivered by the CHIF program management office within the Communities and Infrastructure Programs (CIP) branch.

The CHIF program is delivered through two funding streams:

• Direct delivery (DD) stream

  Under this stream, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) will deliver up to $1 billion over eight years directly to eligible recipients, such as municipalities and Indigenous communities, to address pressing infrastructure needs and enable more housing.

• Provincial and territorial (PT) agreement stream

  Under this stream, HICC will provide $5 billion over 10 years to the provinces and territories to administer and deliver funding to their communities to support provincial and territorial priorities while advancing federal housing objectives. To receive funding, the provinces and territories must enter into bilateral agreements with the federal government. The agreements must be finalized by January 1, 2025, for the provinces, and April 1, 2025, for the territories.

  The provinces must dedicate a minimum of 20% of their CHIF funding envelope to rural, northern and Indigenous communities. Indigenous projects are expected to be given due consideration by provinces as part of this envelope.

  Project selection will be administered by the provinces and territories in alignment with the requirements of CHIF. The provinces and territories will conduct intakes to solicit eligible projects from municipalities and other eligible recipients, perform an initial review, and submit eligible projects to HICC for consideration in accordance with CHIF's objectives.

Why a privacy impact assessment was completed

A privacy impact assessment was conducted to develop an informed assessment of the privacy risks associated with the collection and use of personal information for this initiative and to inform recommendations to mitigate any identified privacy risks to an acceptable level.

Additional information

The following risks have been identified and mitigated: use and disclosure of personal information, retention and disposal of personal information, notification of the purpose of collection, accuracy of personal information, safeguards, technology and privacy, openness and individual access to personal information.

Related personal information banks

The HICC Grants and Contributions personal information bank applies to this initiative.

For more information about this privacy impact assessment, please contact

Melanie Davis
Director, ATIP and Executive Correspondence
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
180 Kent Street, 11^th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 0B6
Telephone: 343-550-1166
privacy-vieprivee@infc.gc.ca