{"id":76911,"date":"2025-09-15T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=76911"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:58:39","slug":"pm-carney-launches-build-canada-homes-to-supercharge-homebuilding-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/pm-carney-launches-build-canada-homes-to-supercharge-homebuilding-across-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Carney launches Build Canada Homes to supercharge homebuilding across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 14, 2025
\nOttawa, Ontario<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Canadians are in a housing crisis. Despite recent improvements in several cities,\u00a0far too many Canadians \u2013 particularly young Canadians \u2013 are struggling to find homes they can afford.\u00a0Canada\u2019s new government\u00a0is stepping up with a bold new approach and unprecedented investments to increase the housing supply in Canada.<\/p>\n

Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched <\/strong>Build Canada Homes<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 a new federal agency that will\u00a0build\u00a0affordable housing\u00a0at scale.\u00a0Build Canada Homes will help fight homelessness by building transitional and supportive housing \u2013 working with provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities. It will build deeply affordable and community housing for low-income households, and partner with private market developers to build affordable homes for the Canadian middle class.<\/p>\n

Build Canada Homes will transform public-private collaboration and deploy modern methods of construction, as it catalyzes the creation of an entirely new Canadian housing industry. It\u00a0will leverage public lands, offer flexible financial incentives, attract private capital, facilitate large portfolio projects, and support modern manufacturers to build the homes that Canadians need.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s new government will bring federal lands, faster approvals, and strong incentives to the table. The private sector will bring construction capacity, innovation, supply chains, and financing.<\/p>\n

Build Canada Homes will focus primarily on non-market housing, supporting a mix of income needs as part of a national effort to double housing construction, restore affordability, and reduce homelessness.<\/p>\n

There are three key pillars to this new approach:<\/p>\n

First, Build Canada Homes will partner with industry, other orders of government, and Indigenous communities to build affordable housing at scale and at speed.<\/strong> As the federal government\u2019s new one-stop-shop for affordable housing, Build Canada Homes will make it easier and simpler for builders to access the resources needed to build new homes, faster. Canada\u2019s new government will capitalize<\/strong> Build Canada Homes with an initial $13\u00a0billion,<\/strong> enabling financing, providing land, and helping builders get big projects off the ground. Build Canada Homes will offer flexible, financial incentives, approve large portfolio projects, and leverage public lands for housing so projects are derisked and private builders can focus on building. Build Canada Homes will partner on and lead developments of affordable housing projects, and by using public lands, take land costs out of the equation.<\/p>\n

To streamline construction on public lands, Canada Lands Company will be transferred under the Build Canada Homes portfolio. This will give Build Canada Homes access to the government\u2019s land portfolio, including 88 federal properties suitable for housing listed on the Canada Public Land Bank, which span 463 hectares or approximately the size of downtown Ottawa. Federal ministers will also be instructed to determine suitable lands for housing construction owned by their departments.<\/p>\n

Second, Build Canada Homes will deploy capital, create demand, and harness innovative housing technologies to build faster and more sustainably, 365 days a year.\u00a0<\/strong>Build Canada Homes will place an intense focus on using cost-efficient and modern methods of construction such as factory-built, modular, and mass timber. Through bulk procurement and long-term financing, Build Canada Homes will mainstream these advanced methods of construction \u2013 with the potential to cut building timelines by up to 50%, reduce costs by as much as 20%, and lower emissions by approximately 20% during construction. To supplement these efforts, wherever possible, Build Canada Homes will prioritize low-carbon materials, low-carbon technologies, and efficient design. This will help catalyze a new housing industry \u2013 one that builds faster, and more sustainably, 365 days a year.<\/p>\n

Third, Build Canada Homes will adopt the government\u2019s new Buy Canadian policy and prioritize projects that use Canadian lumber and other Canadian materials.<\/strong>\u00a0With the Buy Canadian policy, Build Canada Homes will channel demand through Canadian industries \u2013 from lumber and steel to aluminum and mass timber \u2013 strengthening domestic supply chains, scaling up a home-grown housing industry, and creating high-paying careers across the country. Canada\u2019s new government is ensuring that the construction of new homes maximizes Canadian resources.<\/p>\n

To lead\u00a0this ambitious mandate, the Prime Minister\u00a0is pleased to announce the appointment of\u00a0Ana Bail\u00e3o as the\u00a0Chief Executive Officer of Build Canada Homes.<\/strong> Ms.\u00a0Bail\u00e3o is a seasoned leader with deep experience in advancing affordable housing, having served\u00a0for over a decade on Toronto City Council \u2013 including as Deputy Mayor from 2017 to 2022, as Chair of the Planning and Housing Committee and on the board of Toronto Community Housing. While on City Council,\u00a0Ms.\u00a0Bail\u00e3o\u00a0spearheaded the creation of Housing Now, which uses city lands to build housing. Most recently, she has served as the Head of Affordable Housing & Public Affairs with the private developer Dream Unlimited Corporation.<\/p>\n

Build Canada Homes has a mandate to move quickly. To that end, the Prime Minister also announced its first four investments and initiatives:<\/p>\n

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  1. As Build Canada Homes begins to develop public land sites under Canada Lands Company\u2019s portfolio, it will prioritize innovative, factory-built housing. To begin, Build Canada Homes will prioritize six sites to build 4,000 factory-built homes on federal land \u2013 with additional capacity of up to 45,000 units across the portfolio. In these projects, it will deploy a \u201cdirect-build\u201d approach,\u00a0overseeing and leading construction projects\u00a0focused on affordable mixed-income communities. This first tranche of sites will be in Dartmouth, Longueuil, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Edmonton.<\/li>\n
  2. To help protect existing affordable rental housing, the $1.5\u00a0billion Canada Rental Protection Fund will be launched under Build Canada Homes. This initiative will support the community housing sector in acquiring at-risk rental apartment buildings, ensuring they remain affordable over the long term. It also aligns with Build Canada Homes\u2019 broader mandate to grow the supply of affordable and non-market housing \u2013 not only by building new homes, but also by preserving the ones on which Canadians already rely.<\/li>\n
  3. Build Canada Homes will\u00a0deploy $1\u00a0billion to\u00a0build transitional and supportive housing\u00a0for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. It will collaborate with key provincial, territorial, municipal, and Indigenous partners to pair these federal investments with employment and health care supports.<\/li>\n
  4. Build Canada Homes will partner with the Nunavut Housing Corporation to build over 700 public, affordable, and supportive housing units. Approximately 30% of the units are expected to be built off-site, using innovative construction methods such as factory-built housing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Further details on these investments will be announced over the coming months. To develop additional projects this year, Build Canada Homes will immediately begin engaging with provinces, territories, cities, Indigenous partners, investors, and builders with proven track records.<\/p>\n

    Build Canada Homes will scale up housing construction and build an entirely new Canadian housing industry: one that improves productivity in the construction sector, uses Canadian materials, creates new high-paying careers across the supply chain, and positions Canada as a world leader in modern homebuilding. With Build Canada Homes, Canadian\u00a0private builders will have the certainty they need to build at scale and speed.<\/p>\n

    The government will announce additional measures in Budget\u00a02025 to lower costs for builders and to catalyze private capital in homebuilding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    September 14, 2025 Ottawa, Ontario Canadians are in a housing crisis. Despite recent improvements in several cities,\u00a0far too many Canadians \u2013 particularly young Canadians \u2013 are struggling to find homes they can afford.\u00a0Canada\u2019s new government\u00a0is stepping up with a bold new approach and unprecedented investments to increase the housing supply in Canada. Today, the Prime …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":73751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 11:26:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76912,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911\/revisions\/76912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}