Background
The Governments of Canada and Ontario signed an Affordable Housing Agreement on May 30, 2002 – the first phase provided federal funding of $245 million together with matching contributions from the Province of Ontario, municipalities and other housing partners. Approximately $73 million of federal funding has been committed under this agreement.
New Agreement:
Today Canada and Ontario agreed to a cost matching commitment of $301 million each which, together with municipal contributions, increases the total investment under the Agreement to $734 million in funding to be committed by 2009. Funding will be used for:
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Affordable Urban Rental Housing:
a new rental housing supply program which aims to increase the supply of new rental affordable housing for moderate-to- low-income households. This includes a rehabilitation/conversion housing component to rehabilitate severely deteriorated properties into rental housing for low-income households;
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Affordable Home Ownership Program: to ease the demand for rental housing by assisting rental households to purchase affordable homes;
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Affordable Remote Housing Program: To create, acquire or rehabilitate through renovation, affordable rental or ownership housing in remote areas.
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Housing Allowance/Rent Supplement Program: An interim measure to create rental affordable housing for low-income households on or eligible to be on a social housing waiting list, through rent supplements on existing vacant units.
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