Projects are funded through an annual open-call, merit-based competitive
process.
Directed Demonstrations: We may also fund demonstration initiatives led by
external organizations in areas of strategic interest that are aligned with
the National Housing Strategy and federal priorities.
2021 Successful Projects
Please note that the contribution agreement process is still underway for these projects and/or provincial jurisdiction approval might be required.
Calgary Urban Indigenous Community Land Trust Development Project
The goal of this project is to develop a localized urban Indigenous Community Land Trust model, informed by Indigenous Elders and urban Indigenous community stakeholders in collaboration with the existing local Community Land Trust (HomeSpace). This model will help address the limited culturally relevant affordable housing options for urban Indigenous peoples in and around Calgary.
Canadian Network of Community Land Trust’s Technical Assistance Program
The Technical Assistance Program aims to support the healthy growth and increased impacts of the Community Land Trust sector through the documentation and dissemination of best practices. The objective is to grow, amplify, and consolidate the effectiveness and ongoing collaboration of CLTs across the country.
DTES Community Land Trust
This demonstration aims to establish a decolonized governance model for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust, focusing on tenants and community members with lived experience and on a holistic housing model for CLT properties. If successful, this model focused on people living in deep poverty, will be shared for replication in similar communities across Canada.
Land trust for an affordable cohousing project in Lachine
The purpose of this pilot project is to establish a land trust to develop affordable, long-term cohousing arrangements. This trust will be used to acquire other lots to develop affordable cohousing and replicate this financial model for development elsewhere in Quebec.
Social utility trust: Model deployment and consolidation
This demonstration seeks to address the current lack of information on social utility trusts by creating adapted transfer tools and allowing their dissemination and appropriation by affordable housing stakeholders in Quebec. This will help establish social utility trusts to protect land and buildings from rising values and real estate speculation.
G.R.E.A.T. Housing (Green Rural Environmental Affordable Together)
This project seeks to foster and demonstrate the process of implementing an environmentally sustainable affordable housing Community Land Trust in the context of the current housing market and climate change challenges. The expected impact and outcomes from piloting this model include testing, documenting and building new evidence for this type of solution, leading to the creation of eco affordable housing in Muskoka.
Growing Local Land Trusts through Platform Co-operatives in the Short-term Rental Market
That project aims to demonstrate an innovative way for land trusts to develop a sustainable revenue stream that can help accelerate and scale up their efforts to protect and expand affordable housing. The initiative will focus on Toronto’s Kensington Market, with the goal of creating a funding model that can be replicated by other Toronto land trusts and in major urban and tourist markets across Canada.
Halifax Affordable Housing Community Land Trust
This initiative seeks to demonstrate how a municipal-scale Community Land Trust can address systemic housing challenges in Halifax. This model would be based on leading practices and adapted to Halifax’s context. This project also wants to stimulate new ways of thinking about housing and a deeper public conversation about the significance of resilient and whole communities as they relate to health, equity, and opportunity.
Journey to a York Region Community Housing Land Trust
This project aims to demonstrate the process of implementing an existing community land trust solution, in operation in Toronto, in the region of York in Ontario. This demonstration seeks to share valuable lessons learned and to build new evidence on early outcomes in a complex environment.
Kamloops Community Land Trust (CLT) Creation for Affordable Housing
This initiative intends to demonstrate the process of implementing a Community Land Trust with non-traditional partners. The processes and governance structures identified through this project will be used as a toolkit or best practices guide that other communities can use as a resource. The outcome will identify common barriers or challenges and identify strategies for overcoming these issues with non-traditional partners.
Kensington Market Community Land Trust
This dissemination project will demonstrate on a national stage how was achieved the Kensington Market Community Land Trust first successful acquisition in June of 2021. In addition to fully evaluating and analyzing the contextual factors which led to this successful acquisition, the project will undertake a knowledge transfer to the neighboring Chinatown context to support scaling and adaptation. This demonstration will enable to leverage the momentum of this recent success to practically benefit the emergent interest in Community Land Trusts across Canada.
Temiskaming District Community Land Trust
The objective of this demonstration is to experiment the development of an Indigenous women-led land trust within the District of Temiskaming and District of Cochrane in Ontario that will support and enable women-led housing co-ops and women-built affordable housing. Through this initiative, a roadmap and framework can be created for Indigenous governed land trusts to be scaled across Canada.
Whitehorse Community Land Trust (Directed Demo)
Affordable housing challenges are accentuated in the North, where the market is defined by high housing costs, near-zero vacancy rates and limited housing stock. This project aims to create the first Community Land Trust built in Northern Canada, and first community-owned non-profit housing projects in Whitehorse with built-in price protection.
2020 Successful Projects
SAFERhome Universal Design Affordable Housing Demonstration
This project will outline, demonstrate and establish new best practices for
building affordable, accessible and environmentally conscious housing. It will
focus on tangible aging in place solutions, adaptive, intuitive and affordable
housing, combined with new and emerging technologies.
Implementing the Right to Housing in the Supportive Housing Sector
This project seeks to enhance the capacity of renters to navigate rental
housing laws and systems for more stable and successful tenancies. Within the
supportive housing and service provider sector, it will seek to increase legal
competency, awareness, leadership and accountability around accessibility and
equity issues.
Collaborative Innovative Partnerships for Financing Affordable Housing (Directed Demo)
This project aims to demonstrate a more effective means for non-profit housing
providers to fundraise the equity necessary to advance their projects, while
engaging the private sector and broader community to make affordable housing
everyone’s concern. By providing tools, templates and guides, the goal is to
accelerate the replication of a fundraising approach.
Regent Park: World Urban Pavilion (Directed Demo)
The Pavilion will be a physical and virtual knowledge exchange hub in support
of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the New Urban
Agenda. It will showcase and facilitate sharing science, research and
innovation in urban revitalization. There will be an emphasis on housing and
housing affordability, including the lived experiences of NHS vulnerable
populations.
2019 Successful Projects
2018 Successful Projects
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