Our 2020-2025 Strategic Plan

The Centre’s mission, vision and values are at the heart of everything we do

Our ideal: A home for all

Our mission at the Community Housing Transformation Centre is to transform the community-housing sector in a long-lasting way. Part of this implies improving existing solutions and creating more affordable housing, tools, and shared expertise. The Centre’s funds, along with other activities, support transformative non-profit housing projects.

Our vision

Supporting a resilient, growing, sustainable and inclusive community-housing sector.

Our mission

To connect and partner with sector, service and community housing providers to facilitate sector-wide transformation.
To fund, support, and build organizational capacity where gaps and needs exist.

The Centre’s priorities

Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

To promote within and outside of the Centre the criticality of reconciliation
To focus on and respond to Calls to Action related to Indigenous Peoples
To engage and support Indigenous-led and/or managed housing providers and support their transformation agendas
To create tools and training to support community-housing providers in reconciliation efforts

Improving sector eco-responsibility

To help housing providers reduce their environmental footprint
To help tenants and co-op members reduce their environmental footprint
To promote the use of existing tools and encourage adoption of best practices

Resilience and innovative practices

To improve the quality of management and governance in the sector
To enhance community-housing providers’ awareness of their financial and social operations
To support providers in exploring new management and business models

Social inclusion and community engagement

To promote meaningful and strong tenant and community engagement
To provide resources and tools and showcase best practices
To improve community-housing organization for tenant and community engagement

Sector growth

To promote and leverage existing funding models for growth
To support exploration of new growth models (acquisition, land trust, other)
To increase access to tools and resources to promote community housing as a solution
To identify sector gaps (emerging issues and opportunities) and fill them (e.g., impacts of boom-and-bust economic cycles)

Effective Centre organizational stewardship

To build staff expertise and engagement through professional development and empowerment
To create an effective and functioning governance structure
To establish clear and effective external and internal communication

Download the Centre's 2020-21 Annual Report

Download the Centre's 2019-2020 Annual Report