Read our ideas for how the federal government can create a stable and predictable regulatory environment to support and incentivize investment in new rental housing supply, to protect existing affordable rental housing in perpetuity in our most vulnerable communities, and to make housing affordable for our fellow one in ten Canadians in core housing need. This is our formal submission for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Finance’s Pre-Budget Consultations for Budget 2024.

Read Boardwalk REIT CEO Sam Kolias, Minto Apartment REIT CEO Jonathan Li and Killam CEO Philip Fraser’s op-ed published January 31, 2024 in the Hill Times, “Road to Budget 2024 must be paved with bold, long-term housing fixes for all Canadians”

Read CAPREIT President & CEO Mark Kenney and Boardwalk REIT CEO Sam Kolias’ op-ed published December 30, 2023 in the Toronto Star, “A simple plan to help boost Canada’s affordable housing supply” focused on a federal fund to sunport non-profits to buy and maintain existing stock, freeing up private sector capital for reinvestment.

Read our ideas for how the federal government can help build the housing supply Canada needs, affordably. This is our formal submission for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Finance’s Pre-Budget Consultations for Budget 2023.

Deepen your understanding of how the tax treatment of REITs is revenue neutral for the federal government by reading this September 2022 Ernst & Young report.

Learn more about what REITs are, their values, and how they operate in the Canadian housing space.

Take a peek at the concerns and proposals Canadian rental housing providers for affordable housing shared with our Prime Minister about housing policy and REITs.

Click here to read the announcement of our website.

Read CAPREIT President & CEO Mark Kenney’s op-ed published December 6, 2022 in the Globe & Mail, “More taxes on real estate investment trusts won’t solve the housing crisis”

Read CAPREIT President & CEO Mark Kenney’s op-ed published January 23, 2023 in the Hill Times “Canada’s next great economic boom can be unleashed by the power of housing, immigration, and labour.

Click here to read about CAPREIT’s support for this important affordability program.

We’ve worked with advocates to develop a financial framework for how federal dollars can go farther while providing affordable housing in perpetuity.

Find out what we had to say as part of their study on the financialization of housing.

Review our submission on what it will take to deliver the housing Canada needs.

Read our ideas for how the federal government can help build the housing supply Canada needs, affordably. This is our formal submission for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Finance’s Pre-Budget Consultations for Budget 2024.

Read CAPREIT President & CEO Mark Kenney’s op-ed published July 9, 2023 in the Toronto Star online, and July 29 in print, “As Canada’s housing crisis rages on, is ‘financialization’ really to blame?”

Read CAPREIT President & CEO Mark Kenney’s latest op-ed published August 31, 2023 (and in the September 4 print edition) of the Hill Times.

Read our brief submitted to the review panel’s written hearing on the financialization of purpose-built rental housing.