Recognizing the importance of housing on National Housing Day

Since 2000, Canada has recognized November 22 as National Housing Day — a day dedicated to raising awareness about housing and homelessness.

As we get ready to observe National Housing Day, we are guided by this year’s theme, “Home is…”. This theme underlines the fundamental role that housing plays in our lives. It’s not just a roof over our heads, it’s the foundation of stability and wellbeing.

This year our focus is also on the need to develop new, creative solutions to make housing affordable for everyone. This calls for a collective effort — across sectors and across orders of government — to make systemic changes and find new ways to address housing affordability.

As National Housing Day approaches, it’s important to recognize existing challenges and rethink affordable housing.

Many people in Canada face housing challenges

Unfortunately, a significant number of Canadians still don’t have adequate affordable housing. This problem disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations, such as racialized households, single-parent households and seniors living alone.

Rethinking affordable housing

Addressing housing affordability requires collective action and new, creative solutions. We need to bring together governments, financial organizations and other partners, such as developers, to incentivize and help make system-wide changes that address the housing needs of all Canadians.

Creating a new generation of housing in Canada

While there’s much work that needs to be done to ensure every Canadian has a place to call home, progress is being made through the National Housing Strategy. The Strategy features a range of innovative construction and research programs. These are designed to get homes built for people who need them most and support ground-breaking research for creative housing solutions.

Let's work together to build a future where every Canadian has a place to call home — discover funding and financing programs.

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