Housing


 

HousingWatch has been established, in order that Canadians may contribute to the real-time monitoring of housing projects, apartment and condo construction, including all suburban and inner-city re-developments, which add to or replace Canadian housing stock.

 

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Cycle: Budget 2009
Source of Summary Information:
Annex B: Table B2 and B3
Key Information for the Government's Progress Reports to
Assist Parliamentary Monitoring and Oversight of Budget 2009
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
 
Areas: Housing, Apartments, Condos, Units, Dwelling
Goal: Action to Stimulate Housing Construction
 
If the desired outcome is to:

  • Providing a one-time federal investment...for energy and retrofits for up to 200,000 social housing units on a 50-50 cost-shared basis with the provinces
  • ...assist the transition to market-based housing on reserve and address immediate housing needs while serving as an economic stimulus for many First Nations and rural areas.
     

Through

  • Renovation and Retrofit of Social Housing
  • First Nations Housing

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Then

  • What should we be watching?
  • What evidence would prove that these goals have been achieved?
  • Are these the goals we should be aiming for?

 

 

Join the discussion here.

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