Policy Documents
2015 to present
National
- Pre-budget Submission 2021: Recommendations for the 2021 Federal Budget (February 2021)
- Written Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the State of Persons with Disabilities (February 2021)
- Pre-Budget Submission 2020: A Modern Housing Mix Includes Co-operative (January 2020)
- Three Policy Ideas to Help Build and Support Affordable Housing in Canada (August 2019)
- Coalition of Community Housing and Homelessness Organizations Calls for Parties to Address Housing and Homelessness in Election 2019 (July 2019)
- Globe and Mail op-ed: Canada needs a rebirth of co-op housing (July 2019)
- Pre-Budget Submission 2018 (October 2017)
- Let’s Talk Co-operative Housing National Housing Strategy Submission (October 2016)
- You Hold the Key: What’s Needed to Fix Co‑op Housing Pre-budget submission (August 2016 to October 2016)
- Affordable Housing: A Foundation for Social Inclusion Joint statement (February 2016)
- Submission to the 2016 Pre-Budget Consultation (February 2016)
Ontario
- Budget Submission 2022: Solving Ontario’s Affordable Housing Crisis (January 2022)
- Submission on requiring income and asset limits (April 2021)
- Broad policy responses and supports needed to maintain occupancies and preserve affordability (March 2021)
- Budget Submission 2021: Ontario: A Place to Build (February 2021)
- CHF Canada Feedback: Changes to Co-operative Corporations Act on virtual processes (February 2021)
- Co-op Housing Day 2020: Three ways we can build and support affordable housing in Ontario (October 2020)
- CHF Canada Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (July 2020)
- CHF Canada Submission, Bill 184 – Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act (July 2020)
- Ontario’s Plan for Economic Recovery: Housing Infrastructure Stimulus to Kick-Start the Economy (May 2020)
- Submission to Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (April 2020)
- Building up Ontario’s housing: Three ways we can build and support affordable housing in Ontario Pre-budget Submission (January 2020)
- CHF Canada’s Response to Ontario’s Proposed Provincial Policy Statement (October 2019)
- Three ideas to help build and support affordable housing in Ontario Pre-Budget Submission (January 2019)
- Consultation and Review of the Co‐operative Corporations Act (January 2019)
- Increasing Housing Supply in Ontario: Submission from CHF Canada (January 2019)
- An Affordable Housing Plan for Ontario (CHF Canada and ONPHA, May 2018)
- Submission on the Consultation for the Modernization of the Social Housing Framework (April 2018)
- Submission on Inclusionary Zoning Submission on the proposed regulations for inclusionary zoning (January 2018)
- Housing is the Solution Pre-Budget Submission (January 2018)
- Affordable today. Affordable tomorrow. CHF Canada and ONPHA make the case for investing in co-op and non-profit housing (November 2017)
- Time for Progress on Affordable Housing Pre-Budget Submission (January 2017)
- Submission on Bill 7: Promoting Affordable Housing Act Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (November, 2016)
- Time for Real Progress on Affordable Housing Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (February 2016)
- Putting Communities First CHF Canada’s Submission for the Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy Update (July, 2015)
- Now is the Time for Action on Affordable Housing Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (January, 2015)
2007 to 2014
National
- Submission to the 2014 Pre-Budget Consultation (August 2014)
- The Future of Co‑op Housing Affordability: Three Myths (May 2014)
- You Hold the Key – Fix the Co-op Housing Crunch (April 2014)
- 2013 Pre-Budget Brochure for MPs
- Submission to the 2013 Pre-Budget Consultation
- Expiring Agreements Threaten 200,000 Units of Affordable Housing (Fall 2012)
- The End of Federal Operating Agreements Threatens Existing Affordable Housing for Low‐income Canadians (October 2012)
- CHF Canada’s Submission to the 2012 Pre-Budget Consultation (August 2012)
- CHF Canada’s Presentation Before the Special Committee on Co-operatives (July 2012)
- CHF Canada’s Submission to the 2011 Pre-Budget Consultation (August 2011)
- CHF Canada’s Submission to the 2010 Pre-Budget Consultation (August 2010)
- Co‑operative Housing: Ready to Build on Canada’s Affordable Housing Investment (October 2009)
- Submission for the Federal Government’s Housing Consultations (October 2009)
- The Dunning Report: Dimensions of Core Housing Need in Canada (August 2009)
- CHF Canada’s Submission to the 2009 Pre-Budget Consultation (August 2009)
- Dimensions of Core Housing Need in Canada (July 2007)
- Co‑operative Housing in Canada (2008)
Ontario
- Time for Concerted Action on Affordable Housing Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (January, 2014)
- Where’s Home? 2013 Joint ONPHA & CHF Canada research document (June 2013)
- Making Progress on Affordable Housing in a Time of Restraint Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (March, 2013)
- Where’s Home? The Need for Affordable Rental Housing in Ontario (September 2011)
- Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs Legislative Assembly of Ontario (February 1, 2011)
- Commentary on The Conference Board of Canada Report: “Building From the Ground Up: Enhancing Affordable Housing in Canada (March 2010)” (August 2010)
- Submission on Ontario’s 10-Year Infrastructure Plan (August 2010)
- Where’s Home? A Study of Affordable Rental Housing Within 22 Communities in Ontario (May 2010)
- Addressing Energy Poverty: Reforming Utility Allowances and Charges within Ontario’s Rent-Geared-to-Income Subsidy System (May 2010)
- A brief to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing on Receivership and Sale Provisions in the Social Housing Reform Act (April 2010)
- Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs Legislative Assembly of Ontario (February 2, 2010)
- A Place for Co‑op Housing in Ontario’s Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy (November 2009)
- Where’s Home? 2008 (March 2, 2009)
- Where’s Home 2008 Market Summaries (March 2, 2009)