7/7 Bottom line: Budget 2025 makes meaningful investments in supportive housing and preservation. That's real progress.

But without tenant protections and accountability funding, we're only solving half the problem.

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6/7 The new capital budgeting framework could unlock capital for non-market housing, which is exactly what the sector needs.

But we're watching to ensure "affordable housing" definitions stay stringent and tied to actual housing need, not market rates.

5/7 Build Canada Homes consolidates programs under one agency with "flexibility to finance projects over multiple years."

Sounds promising. But will non-profit providers actually access this capital? Or will it flow primarily to private developers? Details matter.

4/7 The $1B for supportive housing is a game-changer but only if provinces step up with operating funding for wraparound services.

Brick and mortar alone won't end homelessness. We need health supports, employment services, and coordinated care.

3/7 ❌ GAPS: No Renter Bill of Rights. No security of tenure protections. No visible funding for Federal Housing Advocate. Insufficient funding to respond to encampments & homelessness. If you're facing a renoviction today, tomorrow's supply doesn't help you. We need both supply & tenant protection.

2/7 ✅ WINS:

$1B for supportive/transitional housing

$1.5B for Canada Rental Protection Fund

$51B infrastructure fund (with development charge reduction requirements!)

Largest co-op investment in 30 years

They listened on supply. But supply isn't everything.

4/4 Framed by the NHS Act, we call on policymakers to "re-engineer the housing system itself." By understanding people's housing pathways, we can redesign housing, especially for survivors of GBV, with dignity & security.

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3/4 In our latest blog post, we examine how this connects directly to survivors of GBV and why shifting from ownership-as-the-goal to safe, affordable community housing is essential for justice and safety.

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2/4 The gap between 2017 housing targets & today’s reality is alarming—CHN has more than 2x & chronic homelessness among shelter users has risen 22%. But beyond the data, these figures reveal a stark truth: housing instability is fuelling poverty, worsening health outcomes, and driving displacement.

At BSH, our research explores missing middle housing—and how to achieve deeper affordability & decommodification.

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We’re seeing more duplexes/triplexes, but many rely on pre-sales or private capital—mirroring condo-market dynamics, not building #affordability.

Design catalogues are a start, not a strategy. We need #policy, #financing & #zoning reforms to make denser models viable beyond the speculative market.

Most “gentle density” models still mean demolishing a single-family home for a duplex/triplex—requiring capital out of reach for most homeowners (the primary target demographic besides financialized builders). In B.C., many designs are Vancouver-specific (laneway-based), limiting wider relevance.