Creating Homes that Work for Everyone: Learnings from inclusive housing design projects 02 Nov 2023 Guest Author This past April, the 2023 CHRA National Congress featured an amazing lineup of sessions that delved into some of the biggest issues facing Canada’s housing and homelessness sector. Speakers Suzanne Le, Executive Director of Multifaith Housing Initiative and…

Fall 2023 Advocacy Update 19 Oct 2023 Jacob Gorenkoff, Director, Policy & Government Relations Canada is grappling with a dramatically worsening housing crisis, characterized by rapidly rising housing costs, particularly affecting individuals with lower incomes. It’s a crisis so severe that the Canadian Rental Housing Index estimates that 1.6 million (or 33%) renter households can’t…

Housing on the Hill Day 2023 05 Oct 2023 CHRA staff Millions of Canadians – particularly those with lower incomes – have been experiencing rapidly rising housing costs, driven in large part by an extreme housing supply shortfall. The impacts of Canada’s housing shortfall disproportionately impact Indigenous peoples, newcomers, women-led households, youth, and seniors. This…

Making Housing Happen: Exploring tools to support the development process 21 Sep 2023 Guest Author This past April, the 2023 CHRA National Congress featured an amazing lineup of sessions that delved into some of the biggest issues facing Canada’s housing and homelessness sector. Speakers Asad Bhatti, then Director of Housing at the Rural Development Network,…

Ten things to know about homelessness in New York City 17 Aug 2023 Guest Author By Nick Falvo, PhD I recently helped organize a homelessness study tour of New York City in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Housing Canada. Our group consisted of 30 Canadians from the non-profit sector, government, law enforcement and academia.…

CHRA Member Profile: The Agency for Co-operative Housing Setting housing co-ops up for success with data 27 Jul 2023 Guest Author Housing co-operatives offer a refreshing alternative to traditional housing models by placing power in the hands of the residents themselves. But housing co-ops also face a unique set of challenges, such as balancing the…

CHRA’s Blueprint for Housing: A “Team Canada” approach to housing 13 Jul 2023 CHRA staff CHRA’s Blueprint for Housing is an extensive policy document that will help inform CHRA’s advocacy efforts over the coming decade as we work towards our goal of ensuring that all who live in Canada have access to safe, affordable, appropriate…

This past April, the 2023 CHRA National Congress featured an amazing lineup of sessions that delved into some of the biggest issues facing Canada’s housing and homelessness sector.

A New Era in Indigenous Housing 15 Jun 2023 Guest Author A new era has begun with the announcement by Jeff Loucks, CEO of the National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Incorporated (NICHI), and the Minister of Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu earmarking $281.5 million to NICHI to address the critical need for safe and affordable urban, rural…

Reflections on the Pre-Congress course ‘The Curious Case of Housing Policy in Canada’ 01 Jun 2023 Guest Author Canada’s housing policy landscape over the last five years has seen some exciting changes. This past April, CHRA and CIH Canada were proud to offer a Pre-Congress course, ‘The Curious Case of Housing Policy in Canada’, which…