2024: CHRA’s Year in Review – CHRA

Dec 05, 2024

Leah Blunden, CHRA Communications Manager

As the year comes to a close, we’re looking back on everything CHRA, our members, and sector partners have worked towards and accomplished in 2024. We have a lot to be proud of and we’re looking forward to building on our successes in 2025. Read on to learn more.

Policy and advocacy

Budget 2024. Over the past several years, we have worked with our members and sector allies to achieve real housing policy and program gains on the federal level. Budget 2024 reflected many long-standing CHRA priorities:

• $1.5 billion allocated for acquisitions through the Canada Rental Protection Fund. CHRA and its Canadian Housing Acquisition Fund partners are advocating for the government to work with us to implement this important initiative. The establishment of such a fund was a key recommendation from our Blueprint for Housing.
• Through the Public Lands for Homes plan, the unlocking of underused public land for housing, accelerating availability, and creating a mapping tool to track potential sites. The unlocking of public lands for housing was also a Blueprint recommendation.
  $20 million was allocated to modernizing housing data collection – also a recommendation included in the Blueprint.
• $1 billion was allocated to CMHC to launch a new Rapid Housing stream under the Affordable Housing Fund to build more deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, and shelters. This new funding stream focuses on supportive housing and is in addition to the $1 billion top-up announced in the 2023 Fall Economic Statement – both part of CHRA’s advocacy efforts.
• The federal government removing GST from new rental apartment construction projects – something CHRA has long advocated for.

Housing on the Hill 2024. Just last week, we welcomed 80+ delegates, government representatives, and speakers as we came together to advocate for community housing’s role in solving the housing crisis. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in making this event a success.

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