Housing Development Opportunities
Public lands are an important tool to increase housing supply, improve affordability and build complete communities. BCH is seeking to work with builder partners to advance housing solutions to achieve affordability, use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and support diverse mixed-income communities.
Through its Housing Development Opportunities, Build Canada Homes (BCH) will work with builders, developers, non-profit housing providers, Indigenous organizations and other partners to unlock the housing potential of public lands and accelerate housing delivery across Canada.
These opportunities are designed to bring together development-ready parcels, industry expertise, investment and innovative housing solutions to help deliver more homes, faster. Opportunities may support a range of housing outcomes, including affordable housing, mixed-income housing and will utilize innovative approaches such as MMC.
As opportunities become available, BCH will bring parcels to market through a range of approaches tailored to local housing needs, market conditions and community priorities.
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BCH is rolling out Housing Development Opportunities in phases as parcels become available and development-ready.
Currie, Calgary
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Naawi-Oodena, Winnipeg
Village at Griesbach, Edmonton
Wateridge Village, Ottawa
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Housing Development Opportunities?
Housing Development Opportunities are opportunities for qualified organizations to work with BCH to deliver housing on development-ready parcels.
These opportunities support BCH's mandate to increase housing supply, improve affordability and create complete, mixed-income communities. Depending on the parcel, opportunities may be delivered through land sales, leases, development partnerships, joint ventures or other housing delivery models.
Who can participate?
Opportunities are open to:
- Residential builders and developers
- Non-profit and community housing providers
- Housing co-operatives
- Indigenous organizations and development corporations
- Institutional and mission-driven investors
- Other qualified housing partners
Specific housing delivery requirements are outlined within each opportunity.
How are Housing Development Opportunities structured?
Each Housing Development Opportunity is tailored to the site, community and housing objectives being pursued.
Depending on the opportunity, BCH may use a variety of delivery approaches, including:
- Land sales
- Land leases
- Joint ventures and development partnerships
- Affordable housing partnerships
- Other innovative delivery models
Before bringing an opportunity to market, BCH considers:
- Site location, characteristics and planned land uses
- Local housing needs and affordability objectives
- Opportunities to increase housing supply and support community growth
- Potential housing types, density and tenure mix
- Opportunities to incorporate Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)
- Infrastructure, amenities and connectivity
- Potential partnership and delivery approaches
This approach helps ensure each opportunity is designed to maximize housing outcomes while responding to local market conditions as well as community and partner needs.
How do these opportunities support affordability?
Increasing housing supply is critical to improving housing affordability, and certain sites have been earmarked with requirements to deliver affordable units.
Through Housing Development Opportunities, BCH works with partners to deliver a range of housing outcomes that reflect local needs and market conditions. BCH is open to working with housing providers using a variety of approaches to support affordable housing objectives . Affordability can be achieved through, partnerships with not for profit or community housing providers, by utilizing low cost financing, structured payment approaches, mixed income housing, innovative construction approaches or other measures that support affordability.
BCH seeks to maximize both housing supply and affordability outcomes while creating sustainable and diverse communities.
What is BCH's role?
BCH helps bring development-ready public lands to market and connect them with qualified partners.
BCH will establish project objectives, affordability targets, housing outcomes or other development requirements. Successful proponents are responsible for preparing a housing plan to meet these objectives and advancing and delivering the project.
BCH may also work with brokers, development advisors and other industry experts to support market outreach, identify qualified proponents and help accelerate housing delivery.
How does BCH support innovation?
BCH encourages innovative housing delivery approaches that can increase productivity and accelerate construction timelines.
This includes requiring builders to use Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), such as:
- Modular construction
- Prefabricated building systems
- Panelized construction
- Other innovative building technologies
Opportunities require proponents to incorporate MMC as part of their development approach.
How are opportunities brought to market?
Housing Development Opportunities are released as land offerings when parcels become available for partner engagement.
Opportunities may be marketed directly by BCH or through project-specific websites and third-party partners.
Each housing development opportunity will include comprehensive project information including:
- Site details
- Housing Development objectives
- Submission instructions
- Key dates and timelines
- Contact information
Where can I find current opportunities?
Current Housing Development Opportunities are listed on this page and through project-specific websites.
As new opportunities become available, BCH will continue to update this page as the central hub for organizations interested in working with BCH to deliver more housing on public lands.