Canada needs 5.8M housing units by 2030
If we are to achieve this goal, we must consider new approaches to delivering housing at scale. We need cross-sector collaboration and bold ambition. While there are government initiatives and development programs available to help non-profit, Indigenous, and municipal housing providers, typical development models drain a housing provider’s equity, and expose them to the risk of uncertain interest rates, project costs and schedules. This delays developments and prevents housing providers from committing to developments of a scale that would enable us to provide housing for all.
EllisDon Community Builders is a team of infrastructure veterans. We've worked with all levels of government to deliver some of the largest, most complex social infrastructure in North America. And we're committed to applying this expertise to affordable housing.
Housing is a human right, so let’s deliver it like we do social infrastructure.
Using methodologies that have delivered education and healthcare facilities, complex transportation systems, public institutions and other infrastructure, we can transfer risk from non-profit and regional government housing providers to expert developers, enabling projects of a larger scale to be delivered with certainty.
Affordable housing. At scale. Everywhere.
The Housing as InfrastructureTM model will enable us to deliver many more units, in various regional locations simultaneously, while protecting public equity and making a meaningful impact on the housing crisis.
CMHC exploring Housing as InfrastructureTM
EllisDon Community Builders and CMHC are launching a pilot program to implement Housing as InfrastructureTM. We plan to get shovels in the ground this year and demonstrate the effectiveness of a Design-Build-Finance framework for the construction of affordable housing throughout Canada.
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