About the Plan
Canada’s Housing Crisis
A lack of housing supply is putting pressure on housing affordability across the country.
To ensure affordability for everyone, we need a drastic increase in the supply of all types of housing, from market housing to social and affordable housing, to meet the demand of a growing Canada.
Canada’s Housing Plan
On April 12, 2024, the federal government released a new ambitious housing plan, Solving the housing crisis: Canada’s Housing Plan.
Building on important federal investments launched in 2017, Canada’s Housing Plan and Budget 2024 lay out a bold strategy to unlock millions of new homes.
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At the heart of this plan lies a commitment to make housing affordable with a focus on three areas:
1: Building more homes
Bringing down construction costs, getting cities to allow more homes to be built, transforming how we build them, and growing the workforce to get the job done.
2: Making it easier to rent or own a home
Making it easier to rent or own a home and ensuring every renter or homeowner can retain their home.
3: Helping Canadians who can't afford a home
Working to end chronic homelessness in Canada, and building more affordable housing for students and seniors.
Addressing Canada’s housing crisis requires actions from all orders of government, home builders, not-for-profit sectors, and communities to build the homes Canadians need now and into the future.
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