Resources
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2023 Pre-Budget Submission
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.
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EY Study
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.
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Did You Know?
Learn more about what REITs are, their values, and how they operate in the Canadian housing space.
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Letter to the Prime Minister
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.
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Press Release - Website
Click here to read the announcement of our website.
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Op-ed – More Taxes Won't Help
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”
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Op-ed – Economic Boom
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.
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Press Release - BC’s Rental Protection Fund
Click here to read about CAPREIT’s support for this important affordability program.
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Draft Discussion Paper for an Affordable Housing Fund
We’ve worked with advocates to develop a financial framework for how federal dollars can go farther while providing affordable housing in perpetuity.
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opening remarks at huma committee
Find out what we had to say as part of their study on the financialization of housing.
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written submission to huma committee
Review our submission on what it will take to deliver the housing Canada needs.
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2024 Pre-Budget Submission
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.
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Op-Ed - Financialization is a Futile Distraction
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?”
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OP-ED - New housing minister cannot crack the code alone
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.
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national housing council's review of purpose-built rental housing
Read our brief submitted to the review panel’s written hearing on the financialization of purpose-built rental housing.