Housing Across the Lifecycle – The Canadian Experience

This session presents a concrete, end to end example of how Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation addresses housing supply, affordability, and sustainability across the full value chain. Drawing on Canada’s context, where decentralized planning systems create delays, it shows how coordinated interventions can reduce fragmentation, cost and delivery risk.

Structured around the housing lifecycle, the session covers planning reforms through the Housing Accelerator Fund, standardized permit-designs to speed approvals, financing tools that unlock construction while embedding affordability, accessibility and efficiency, and retrofit programmes that ensure long term performance.

Through practical examples, it highlights replicable ways to align policy, finance, and delivery, helping investors and governments scale sustainable housing solutions.