Accelerating housing supply

We’re working on compiling data and information on housing supply that take into account anticipated demographic changes. The main areas for research will be to:

• characterize the existing supply and demand for housing across the continuum
• project future supply and demand
• assess any gaps

This research will allow us to refine policies, programs, and other initiatives. In addition, it provides the industry with the information needed to anticipate and plan how to meet future housing needs better.

Download some of our recent research:

• Are REITs Behind Higher Rent Prices?
• Rent Control and the Affordability of Rental Housing in Canada
• Canada’s housing supply shortages: moving to a new framework
• Housing shortages in Canada: Updating how much housing we need by 2030
• Housing Shortages in Canada: Solving the Affordability Crisis
• Is Rental Housing Affordable to Low-Income Households? A Supply-Side Perspective
• Spring 2021: Rent Control and Rental Prices in Toronto
• Updating the debate between demand and supply side housing assistance
• Homeownership in Canada

We examine inefficiencies in the system and propose improvements, focusing on the creation and preservation of affordable housing.

This research area explores the range of conditions that enable or constrain the industry’s ability to:

• construct new buildings
• preserve and renew existing housing supply

It explores how different factors can affect our housing supply, including:

• land availability and cost
• access to financing, planning, and regulatory regimes
• supply chain challenges
• systemic barriers to supply

Download the research:

• Land Use Regulations and the Impact on Housing in Canada
• Filtering in Canada: The Price is Right?
• Exploring Environmental, Social and Governance Performance Measurement
• Understanding Filtering: A Long-Term Strategy to New Supply and Housing Affordability
• Supply Constraints on New Multi-unit Residential Developments
• Supply Constraints Increased Prices of Apartment Condos in Canadian Cities
• Non-profits Partnerships Create New Affordable and Supportive Housing
• Understanding Social Inclusion and NIMBYism in Providing Affordable Housing
• Barriers and enablers to the uptake of visitable housing in Canada
• Whistler Housing Authority Legacy Passive House
• YWCA Banff Courtyard Project
• Guide to Developing Affordable Housing
• Ken Soble Tower Renewal
• Tower Renewal — Enabling Complete Communities
• Micro-housing to Promote Housing Affordability

We’re targeting information that can improve the financial sustainability of affordable housing projects. This research will help ensure that costs do not impede accelerating housing supply and keep housing affordable and financially viable over time.

This research focuses on ways to reduce costs of:

• new housing development
• renovation and upgrades to preserve the existing housing supply
• Operating and maintaining housing

It examines data that can help:

• baseline the costs of housing
• characterize influencing factors and trends in costs
• Identify ways to contain or reduce costs to enhance affordability

We’re also assessing technologies, practices and strategies that can reduce capital, renewal and operating costs — including repairs, and energy/water consumption.

Here are some of the latest results:

• Development Charges: Who Bears the Cost?
• Cost of Delivering Housing in Canada
• Evaluation of a Movable, Modular Affordable Housing Project in Canada
• Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Energy Reduction in MURBs
• Bois Ellen Coop
• Cote Bungalow
• Karen’s Place
• Murray Bungalow
• The Heights
• Yale First Nation Sixplex