12-Month Lobbying Summary - Consultant

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

Subject matters	Details	Categories
Budget, Employment and Training, Housing, Immigration, Labour	That the federal government should help create a national workforce and immigration strategy on housing, including construction trades and other employment classes related to housing production.	Policies or Program
Budget, Housing	That the government create a national Property Acquisition Program to support community housing providers with pre-approved Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation funding to buy existing rental properties and preserve affordability.	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
Budget, Housing	That the government earmark additional funds for non-repayable contributions for National Housing Strategy programs designed to support the creation, repair, and renewal of affordable housing to offset skyrocketing borrowing costs.	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
Budget, Housing, Industry	That the government ensures housing innovations achieve scale, by helping develop a robust innovation strategy for housing, including procurement policy and innovation centres for housing construction.	Policies or Program
Employment and Training, Health, Housing, Immigration, Industry, Labour	That the government explore the interrelation of housing policies and programs with health, labour, employment, immigration, innovation, and industry.	Policies or Program
Budget, Housing	That the government leverage federally owned land by leasing it at low rates to community housing providers for the use of creating housing.	Policies or Program
Federal-Provincial Relations, Housing	That the government must lead a collaborative effort with provincial and territorial leaders to create shared housing initiatives and targets for each level of government.	Policies or Program
Budget, Housing, Taxation and Finance	That the government should provide low-cost, long-term fixed-rate financing for constructing purpose-built rental housing	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
Aboriginal Affairs, Budget, Housing	That the government support a fully funded Indigenous-governed urban, rural, and northern (URN) Indigenous Housing Centre to develop and deliver an URN Indigenous housing strategy.	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
Federal-Provincial Relations, Housing, Infrastructure, Municipalities	The addition of housing clauses in Infrastructure Bilateral Agreements between Infrastructure Canada and provincial and territorial partners that provide incentives to build the capacity of local authorities and redevelop existing assets to increase the supply of new homes across the housing spectrum.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Budget, Employment and Training, Housing, Labour	The addition of skills development and human resource capacity growth as eligible expenses in all current and future capital programs and prioritization of the development and scaling up of materials and opportunities to professionalize the community housing workforce as part of future innovation and research-related initiatives undertaken by CMHC.	Policies or Program
Budget, Housing, Taxation and Finance	The creation of an Affordable Housing Investment Tax Credit to incentivize private sector investment in affordable housing projects, while maintaining non-profit and municipal management	Policies or Program
Federal-Provincial Relations, Housing, Municipalities	The development of integrated, aligned application processes to funding programs at all levels of government which are created in consultation with the affordable housing sector to ensure application requirements are accessible to community housing providers.	Policies or Program
Housing	The establishment of a long-term national objective and annual targets for the creation of new community housing units in Canada with a minimum objective of doubling the proportion of community housing units by 2035.	Policies or Program

• Subject matter details in previous versions

  Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

  Subject matters	Details	Categories
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the federal government should help create a national workforce and immigration strategy on housing, including construction trades and other employment classes related to housing production.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government create a national Property Acquisition Program to support community housing providers with pre-approved Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation funding to buy existing rental properties and preserve affordability.	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government earmark additional funds for non-repayable contributions for National Housing Strategy programs designed to support the creation, repair, and renewal of affordable housing to offset skyrocketing borrowing costs.	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government ensures housing innovations achieve scale, by helping develop a robust innovation strategy for housing, including procurement policy and innovation centres for housing construction.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government explore the interrelation of housing policies and programs with health, labour, employment, immigration, innovation, and industry.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government leverage federally owned land by leasing it at low rates to community housing providers for the use of creating housing.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government must lead a collaborative effort with provincial and territorial leaders to create shared housing initiatives and targets for each level of government.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government should provide low-cost, long-term fixed-rate financing for constructing purpose-built rental housing	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	That the government support a fully funded Indigenous-governed urban, rural, and northern (URN) Indigenous Housing Centre to develop and deliver an URN Indigenous housing strategy.	Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	The addition of housing clauses in Infrastructure Bilateral Agreements between Infrastructure Canada and provincial and territorial partners that provide incentives to build the capacity of local authorities and redevelop existing assets to increase the supply of new homes across the housing spectrum.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	The addition of skills development and human resource capacity growth as eligible expenses in all current and future capital programs and prioritization of the development and scaling up of materials and opportunities to professionalize the community housing workforce as part of future innovation and research-related initiatives undertaken by CMHC.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	The creation of an Affordable Housing Investment Tax Credit to incentivize private sector investment in affordable housing projects, while maintaining non-profit and municipal management	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	The development of integrated, aligned application processes to funding programs at all levels of government which are created in consultation with the affordable housing sector to ensure application requirements are accessible to community housing providers.	Policies or Program
  Subject matters were not required to be associated with subject matter details when this content was submitted	The establishment of a long-term national objective and annual targets for the creation of new community housing units in Canada with a minimum objective of doubling the proportion of community housing units by 2035.	Policies or Program

  Subject matters in previous versions

  • Aboriginal Affairs
  • Budget
  • Economic Development
  • Employment and Training
  • Federal-Provincial Relations
  • Health
  • Housing
  • Immigration
  • Industry
  • Infrastructure
  • Labour
  • Municipalities
  • Regional Development
  • Research and Development
  • Taxation and Finance

Government Institutions

• Canada Infrastructure Bank
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Office of the Federal Housing Advocate
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Senate of Canada
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

Communication techniques

Communication techniques that have been used or are expected to be used in the course of the undertaking:

• Grass-roots communication
• Oral communication
• Written communication
• Arrange one or more meetings

Jacob Gorenkoff, Consultant (Business address and contact information)

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