Round 5’s game-changer winners from the Housing Supply Challenge

Round 5 of the Challenge was called Level-Up: Transforming the Way Canada Delivers Housing. This challenge sought to increase the adoption of system-level solutions that transform Canada’s ability to produce more community and market housing, faster.

Discover the game-changers who demonstrated the greatest sector-wide impact on housing supply across Canada.

Game-changer gold

Promise Robotics: Homebuilding robotic factory as-a-service^™ for industrialized homebuilding at scale

The project will scale a ready-to-deploy homebuilding robotic Factory As-a-Service^™ designed for rapid production of timber-based buildings to scale decentralized manufacturing of prefabricated buildings.

Learn more at Promise Robotics.

Game-changer silver

Tapestry: Scaling affordable housing development with the power of community investment

Community bonds enable housing providers to raise affordable capital from local investors, engaging Canadians in tackling the housing crisis. Tapestry offers end-to-end support, helping organizations achieve funding goals and accelerate development to create more homes faster.

Learn more at Tapestry Capital.

mddl: Building the mddl housing ecosystem

mddl turns everyday Canadians into developers by providing the tools, education and expert support needed to deliver middle housing. Through a connected ecosystem approach of integrating municipal policy, process innovation and access to experts, we simplify the redevelopment process.

Learn more at mddl.

One Bowl: Tree to Home

This Indigenous-governed approach tackles housing supply chain challenges by fostering local economies for market housing while improving quality, quantity and affordability in Nations. It leverages modular innovation, local training and a social enterprise framework for impact.

Learn more at One Bowl.

Honourable Mentions went to:

• Resimate
• Rural Impact
• UTILE

Game-changers were nominated by an industry jury from the following 9 finalists:

• Homebuilding robotic factory-as-a-service for industrialized homebuilding at scale - Promise Robotics
• Scaling affordable housing development with the power of community investment - Tapestry Community Capital
• The Middle Housing Platform - mddl
• Tree to Home - One Bowl
• Prequalified digitally designed for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) "blueprint" designs and prefabricated modules and components for mid-rise residential structures - BC Housing
• Modular manufacturing: An integrated approach to drive mass uptake - UTILE
• Speeding up construction with communal services at the local level - Rural Impact
• Template design for affordable/supportive housing developments - EllisDon Community Builders
• The Resimate Marketplace: Streamlining detached accessory dwelling unit development - Resimate Inc.

Further Acknowledgements

The Level-Up round had 4 objectives:

1. Mobilize innovators from inside and outside the housing industry to unlock significant change in housing productivity.
2. Establish cross-sector “solver” communities that enhance Canada’s housing innovation ecosystem.
3. Accelerate housing delivery by tackling one of the industry’s most costly and inefficient challenges: overly long, uncertain timelines.
4. Create the conditions to scale proven solutions that grow the supply of high-quality housing options (both community and market housing).

To establish solver communities and create conditions to scale housing solutions, Level-Up engaged a “Scaling Hub” support program and recognized high impact collaborators who had also applied to Level-Up. In addition to semi-finalists and finalists, we would like to thank and congratulate these entities for expanding the impacts of the program.

Scaling Hubs and Collaborator Prizes

• Foresight Canada
• DMZ at Toronto Metropolitan University
• GroundBreak Ventures
• Highline Beta
• The Decision Lab
• The School of Cities at University of Toronto
• Vancouver Urbanarium
• OPEN Technologies
• Vivre en Ville
• Axe Buildings