November 27, 2025
The Government of Canada gave housers a gift on National Housing Day: a bit more insight into the scope and mandate of Build Canada Homes.
This National Housing Day marks almost three decades since homelessness was declared a national disaster – and there is no irony that it is a disaster precipitated by federal withdrawal from non-market community housing. We can now celebrate the return of the federal government to this social and economic priority, but we can’t yet celebrate the end of the disaster.
Build Canada Homes (BCH) is the newest federal approach to addressing a housing and homelessness crisis. On November 22, the Minister of Housing released the Investment Policy Framework for BCH – let’s have a look at what it means for non-market community housing.
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