CMHC

After creating a lot of hope by passing legislation allowing inclusionary zoning, the province messed this up and drafted a set of regulations that mean that very few (if any) municipalities will enact local inclusionary zoning bylaws. And those that do will find it doesn’t get them very far. Inclusionary zoning is an established practice […]

“We need a national housing plan — one that includes the creation of new affordable housing opportunities and maintains our existing social housing units.” That was the message from Linda Jeffrey, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, when she visited CCOC’s 258 Lisgar on National Housing Day last November. Properties like 258 Lisgar benefitted from […]

CCOC built our first building at 50 James Street in 1979. This five storey building with twenty-two apartments has nine planter boxes where tenants grow vegetables, herbs and flowers. In the late 70’s and 80’s, under the National Housing Act funding, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) would fund green roofs and planter box gardens […]