End Chronic Homelessness
In 2017, we announced that we would reduce chronic homelessness by 50%. So, we got to work, launching over 1,200 projects and helping over a million people find a place to call home. Last fall, in the Speech from the Throne, we upped our commitment and declared our focus to be entirely eliminating homelessness in Canada.
A re-elected Liberal government will:
- Appoint a new Federal Housing Advocate within the first 100-days of a new mandate to ensure the federal government’s work toward eliminating chronic homelessness, as well as other housing commitments, are fulfilled.
- Move forward with our plan to invest in Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy to support communities across the country.
The Liberal Housing Plan will support the construction of 100,000 middle class homes, helping more families achieve the goal of home ownership, while also building more than 20,000 more units of new affordable rental housing, and ensuring 130,000 units are revitalized from a state of critical disrepair — an element completely ignored in the Conservative plan — and helping thousands of families per year access better housing that works for them.