CHRA Canadian Housing and Renewal Association / ACHRU Association canadienne d’habitation et de rénovation urbaine
Registration:
1
of
33
(2009-05-15
to
2009-11-03)
Policies or Program
- Lobby Human Resources and Social Development Canada and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to make their programs to support affordable housing and homelessness long-term and adequately financed, ie receiving at least $1billion in annual federal investment on an ongoing basis.
The specific programs under current focus are the Homelessness Partnering Strategy, the Affordable Housing Initiative, the Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program and the new “stimulus” spending being undertaken through and external to these programs pertaining to affordable housing and homelessness. This lobbying would target both aboriginal and non-aboriginal housing.
The specific goals are to substantially increase funding to address homelessness and affordable housing supply shortages; increase funding to provide support services to people living in affordable housing or using shelter or transitional housing; to marry these investments to community development, health, education and economic outcomes for people and communities; and to have all of these investments guided by a national housing policy framework.
- Targeting CMHC, HRSDC, and Natural Resources Canada, encourage the federal government to implement and enhance policies and programs that make affordable housing more energy efficient and environmentally responsible.
Specifically CHRA now lobbies the federal government to re-introduce the cancelled EnerGuide for Low-Income Households program, or an alternative program that achieves the same goals. The central goal is to make it financially feasible for Canadians on low-incomes to make their homes more energy efficient with federal assistance.