Tackling Canada’s decades-long housing crisis will require more time, money, and strategic planning

It’s time for a renewed national strategy that treats housing as essential infrastructure for health and well-being, and invests at scale in community housing.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. The 2025 budget renewed commitments to supportive and transitional housing but programs that have supported moderate-income households are set to expire, write Alexandra Doran and Yushu Zhu. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALEXANDRA DORAN, YUSHU ZHU

January 28, 2026

It’s been more than seven years since the federal government launched its first 10-year, $115-billion National Housing Strategy, ground...

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