Policy Documents

National

• Written Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Study: The Financialization of Housing (July 2023)
• Budget Submission 2023 – Canada’s Resilient Housing Solution: Launching the Next Generation of Co-operative Housing (February 2023)
• Research report commissioned by CHF Canada:  The Co-op Difference:  Comparing co-op and market rents in five Canadian cities (July 2022) 
• Written Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities: Study of the Design and Roll-out of the Housing Accelerator Fund and the Federal Lands Initiative (June 2022)
• Written Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs – Study on the Effects of the Housing Shortage on Indigenous Peoples Across Canada (March 2022)
• Pre-budget Submission 2022 – Getting the Housing Supply Mix Right: Building the Next Generation of Co-operative Housing (February 2022)
• 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)

Ontario

• Submission on the proposed policies adapted from A Place to Grow and Provincial Policy Statement to form a new provincial planning policy instrument (August 2023)
• Budget submission 2023: Time for action
• Comments on Municipal Rental Replacement by-laws (December 2022)
• Submission on inclusionary zoning (December 2022)
• Submission on A Place to Grow and the Provincial Policy Statement (December 2022)
• Submission on proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act (December 2022)
• Legislative changes needed to permanently allow virtual process under the Co-operative
  Corporations Act (CCA) (July 2022)
• Submission on Service Agreements and other regulations under the Housing Service Act (February 2022)
• Submission on proposed changes to the Co-operative Corporations Act (January 2022)
• Budget Submission 2022: Solving Ontario’s Affordable Housing Crisis (January 2022)
• Submission to Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force (December 2021)
• 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)
• Feedback: Changes to Co-operative Corporations Act on virtual processes (February 2021)
• Co-op Housing Day: 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)

Alberta

• Submission to the City of Calgary: Item 7.1. – Home is Here: The City of Calgary’s Housing Strategy 2024–2030 (CHF Canada and SACHA, September 2023) 

Nova Scotia

• Submission to the Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission (April 2021)

Media coverage

Visit our Co-op Housing in the News page to read media coverage of CHF Canada and Canada’s housing co-operatives.