About the Community Housing Transformation Centre

Founded in 2018 by a network of community housing organizations, the Community Housing Transformation Centre is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making community housing a key player in reshaping Canada’s housing landscape. Its ambition is to expand the sector’s share to 20% of the entire housing market.

How the Centre works toward this goal

To support the sector’s actors, the Centre provides:

• Funding to back impactful projects
• Services to help organizations adapt, innovate, and thrive
• Tools to build capacity and improve management practices
• Partnerships to foster collaboration, share expertise, and access new resources

The Centre believes that transforming the sector requires boldness and initiative. Success comes from concrete and collective action.

An ambitious and collective effort

Transforming community housing is a shared challenge that calls for coordinated, long-term action. The Centre supports this transformation by equipping housing providers with the tools, knowledge, and resources they need to strengthen their capacity and lead change within their communities. Through collaboration and targeted investment, we help lay the groundwork for a more resilient sector.

A resilient and inclusive model

The Centre is committed to advancing a sustainable and equitable community housing system that reflects the diversity of Canada’s communities and secures community housing as key public infrastructure. By mobilizing sector partners around common goals, we can preserve and grow community housing to meet both today’s needs and those of future generations.

A vision for the future

The 2024-2028 strategic plan defines three priorities to guide the Centre’s action:

1. Be a catalyst to preserve and increase the number of homes within a thriving community housing sector.
2. Develop resources, people and processes to diversify leadership and improve sector viability.
3. Improve the economic and social sustainability of the Centre.