The federal government announced Canada’s first-ever National Housing Strategy (NHS), a 10-year, $40 billion plan, to help reduce homelessness and improve the affordability, availability and quality of housing for Canadians in need.

Thanks to new investments announced in Budget 2019 and more than $13 billion announced through the Fall Economic Statement in 2020 and Budget 2021, Canada’s NHS is now a 10-year, $70+ billion plan that will give more Canadians a place to call home.

Indigenous and Northern Housing

Improving Housing Conditions (First Nation, Inuit & Métis Housing)

With funding from Budget 2016, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Indigenous Services Canada, supported projects to build or renovate/retrofit over 18,000 homes in First Nations communities. (In 2019 that amounted to 750 new homes built and 450 Homes renovated).

Investments

• $638 million under the NHS for Indigenous peoples living in urban, rural and Northern communities
• $413 million through Reaching Home, Canada’s Homelessness Strategy, dedicated to address Indigenous homelessness predominantly in urban centres.
• $261 million through an Indigenous Homelessness stream over a nine year period to maintain the community-based approach and to continue to address local priorities; and,
• $152 million, over nine years to be invested in priorities determined in collaboration with Indigenous partners, phased in over three years. Of this amount, $10 million has been allocated for communities in the territories.
• $225 million will ensure community housing providers can protect affordability for Indigenous families and undertake necessary repairs to their projects. This will help stabilize the existing community housing stock and ensure no units are lost while longer-term strategies are developed.
  • Of this, $200 million is delivered through new and more progressive bilateral agreements with provinces and territories and
  • $25 million is available through the National Housing Co-Investment Fund.\
• Indigenous peoples and Northerners will benefit from an additional $300 million, delivered by the territories, to support new construction and repairs to existing affordable housing in Northern communities. Indigenous and northern households will also benefit from additional funding from provincial and territorial NHS initiatives, including the Canada Community Housing Initiatives, PT Priority Funding and the Canada Housing Benefit.

Through investments made in Budget 2017 and Budget 2018, the Government is providing $1.5 billion to support a First Nations-led housing Strategy, an Inuit-led housing plan, and the Métis Nation’s housing strategy including:

• $600 million over 3 years to support new construction and repairs to First Nation housing units.
• $400 million over 10 years to support new construction and repairs to housing units in Nunavik, Nunatsiavut and Inuvialuit. This is in addition to the $240 million over 10 years announced in Budget 2017 to support housing in Nunavut.
• $500 million over 10 years to support the housing needs of Métis Nation Governments and households.
  The Inuit Nunangat Housing Strategy and Métis Nation Housing Strategy are in the implementation phase. Plans for the implementation of the First Nations Housing Strategy are currently under development.

First Nations Market Housing Fund

The $300 million First Nations Market Housing Fund (FNMHF) promotes and supports the expansion of market-based housing in First Nations communities. The Fund is overseen by nine Trustees, including a chairperson. The trustees are responsible for overseeing the FNMHF’s governance and practices, and guiding its direction to achieve its objectives.
https://www.placetocallhome.ca/progress-on-the-national-housing-strategy