Doubling the share of non-market community housing will require a strong and robust sector of community housing providers. Our proposed Canada Community Housing Growth Fund (CCHGF) is a sector-led model that strengthens and grows the community housing sector by investing in training, capacity-building, knowledge transfer, and professionalization to get greater number of non-profits development-ready and prepared for growth.
The CCHGF model provides funding directly to community based organizations, with priority to Indigenous-led and Black-led organizations, through a collaborative co-development process that leverages the organizational capacity of community based fund managers to develop adaptable and culturally sensitive programming.
We thank our partners in this proposed initiative: The National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Inc. (NICHI), The Community Housing
Transformation Centre, and The Black Communities Technical Housing Resource Centre.