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Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy

Reaching Home, launched in 2019, is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada. This program supports the goals of Solving the Housing Crisis: Canada's Housing Plan and the National Housing Strategy and provides funding and support to urban, Indigenous, territorial and rural and remote communities to help them address their local homelessness needs.

Under Reaching Home, the Government of Canada works with communities to deliver projects based on community priorities and data with clear outcomes. This outcomes-based approach keeps the decision-making process at the local level. It also gives communities flexibility to address local priorities and deliver programming designed to meet the needs of specific populations (e.g., youth, Indigenous peoples, women and children fleeing violence).

Reaching Home is now investing $5 billion over nine years (2019 – 2028) to address homelessness. This funding helps organizations doing vitally important work across the country and ensures communities have the support they need to continue to prevent and reduce homelessness.

Building strong communities with the National Housing Strategy

Reaching Home supports the goals of the National Housing Strategy which recognizes that safe and affordable housing is at the heart of every strong community.

The National Housing Strategy has programs and initiatives that can help communities support people in Canada by:

  • creating new housing supply
  • renovating and repairing existing housing

The strategy is currently a 10-year, $115+ billion plan that will give more people in Canada a place to call home. It will create vibrant and inclusive communities where people want to live, work and play.

It provides resources for community housing providers, in addition to funding, innovation and research programs.

Funding opportunities are available and more information can be found on Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's website.

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