CHRA’s Economic Study, The Impact of Community Housing on Productivity: Provincial takeaways – Part 1 04 Apr 2024 CHRA staff In November 2023, CHRA, Housing Partnership Canada, and our sector partners released our economic study, The Impact of Community Housing on Productivity. This study, authored by Deloitte, finds a causal connection between the proportion of community housing…

House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Recommends Measures to Create More Community Housing 21 Mar 2024 CHRA staff The CHRA team has been hard at work advocating for policies and programs that will support your efforts to ensure everyone has a safe and affordable place to call home. On February 15, CHRA Executive Director…

CHRA’s Economic Study, The Impact of Community Housing on Productivity: Future impacts and key takeaways 07 Mar 2024 CHRA staff In November 2023, CHRA, Housing Partnership Canada, and our sector partners released our economic study, The Impact of Community Housing on Productivity. This study, authored by Deloitte, finds a causal connection between the proportion of community housing…

Eliminating barriers to affordable housing development: The case for waiving development charges 22 Feb 2024 Guest Author Megan Golfetto, Project Coordinator, Women’s Shelters Canada You’d be hard-pressed to find someone in Canada who hasn’t heard of our country’s severe housing crisis. Between 2011 and 2016, for every new affordable rental unit created, sixteen were lost.…

Get ready for the 2024 CHRA Congress! 25 Jan 2024 Leah Blunden, Senior Manager of Communications and Member Engagement We’re so excited to welcome you to the 2024 CHRA National Congress on Housing and Homelessness, taking place April 9-11 in Fredericton, New Brunswick! This year brings back some favourite events and adds some exciting new…

An Intro to Our Economic Study, The Impact of Community Housing on Productivity 11 Jan 2024 CHRA staff In November 2023, CHRA, Housing Partnership Canada, and our sector partners released our economic study, The Impact of Community Housing on Productivity. This study, authored by Deloitte, finds a causal connection between the proportion of community housing…

CHRA’s 2023 Wrap-up 21 Dec 2023 Leah Blunden, Senior Manager of Communications and Member Engagement As 2023 draws to a close, we’re taking stock of everything we achieved this year. As always, CHRA members, sector partners, and sponsors played a key role in our accomplishments. Amid a mounting housing and affordability crisis, CHRA worked to…

Fall Economic Statement 2023: a step in the right direction, but bold action is still needed 07 Dec 2023 CHRA staff Canada is struggling through a dramatically worsening housing crisis. Millions of Canadians – particularly those with lower incomes – have been experiencing rapidly rising housing costs driven in large part by an extreme supply…

Community Housing is the Answer 22 Nov 2023 Ray Sullivan, Executive Director Recently, there has been much talk about the polycrisis – an interesting way to describe multiple, sometimes inter-connected big problems. The phrase seems to describe the current state of our world quite well. With multiple wars, a pandemic that technically isn’t over, pending…