Housing Accelerator Fund: Small/Rural/North/Indigenous Stream

Incentives for local governments to boost housing supply across Canada. The Small/Rural/North/Indigenous Stream of the Housing Accelerator Fund provides incentive funding to local governments. The funding is meant to remove barriers and support the development of affordable, inclusive, equitable and climate-resilient communities.

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Grant

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Government Institution

This grant is restricted to whole of Canada

This grant is age restricted from 18 to 100

To be eligible for the Small/Rural/North/Indigenous Stream, applicants must meet one of the following criteria:

Approved participants can use incentive funding for investments in:

The framework for determining the amount of incentive funding includes base funding, top-up funding and an affordable housing bonus.

Eligible applicants include:

Local governments within Canada that have delegated authority over land use planning and development approvals with a population* under 10,000
In the absence of a municipal-level authority, a regional district or province that has authority for land use planning and development approvals
Local governments located in the Territories
First Nation, Métis and Inuit governments located anywhere in Canada

*Population based on 2021 census data.

To be eligible for incentive funding, you’ll need to:

present an application, including an action plan that outlines supply growth targets and specific initiatives to grow housing supply and speed up housing approvals
have a minimum of 5 initiatives in your action plan
commit to a housing supply growth target within the action plan that increases the average annual rate of growth by at least 10%. The growth rate must also exceed 1.1%
complete or update a housing needs assessment report (this requirement may be waived if you recently completed or updated a housing needs assessment)
agree to follow the program’s reporting requirements

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