This report by the National Housing Council provides recommendations on National Housing Strategy (NHS) improvements to the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion.
The recommendations from the report include:
– Changes be made to the National Housing Strategy (NHS) and programs to better reflect the National Housing Act, the right to housing, reducing core housing need, ending homelessness, and addressed inequitable housing outcomes for equity seeking populations
– Provide new targets and a redirection of funding by the federal government to increase non-market housing stock and to support programs that acquire, build, renovate, and protect that stock in perpetuity
– Enhance the Canadian Housing Benefit and scaled to bridge the affordability gap for households in core need and homelessness
– Creation of new and separate funding stream for the investment in urban, rural and northern Indigenous housing programs that are designed and administered by an Indigenous-controlled body
– Improve governmental accountability and coordination across all levels of government and create a federal whole-of government approach to programs.
Topics include: Affordable housing in Canada, National Housing Strategy, housing policies and recommendations, Federal government, low income households, deepest housing need.