RHC is a member-based association representing the builders of purpose-built rental properties across Canada. 🌆🏗️
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Remote communities face some of the toughest rental supply barriers: limited labour, high shipping costs, short building seasons.
Hay River's modular approach cuts through those constraints, and if it scales, could change how Canada builds in hard-to-reach markets.
Institutional capital doesn't flow to markets it doesn't trust. BGO's bet on Pivot and The James signals real confidence in Canada's rental sector, but that confidence depends on policy staying predictable enough to keep it coming.
Learn more: rentalhousingcanada.ca
When students can’t find housing near campus, they compete with workers and families for rental homes elsewhere. EY estimates Canada needs 400,000 purpose-built student beds within six years. Building them will ease pressure across the rental market. More: rentalhousingcanada.ca
RHC met with MP @BradRedekopp to discuss Bill C-287, the Housing Cost Transparency Act. We support the principle of greater transparency in housing cost decisions and appreciated the chance to learn more about the Bill.
Thank you to MP Redekopp for the conversation.
Policy design matters. Metro Vancouver’s purpose-built rental construction collapsed in the 1970s after rent controls weakened investment incentives.
With 2 in 5 residents renting, RHC brings rental providers’ perspectives to debates across Canada, keeping supply in focus.
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Thank you, @ScottAAitchison, for your years of public service and commitment to thoughtfully advancing a national policy discussion on housing and the importance of rental homes for millions of Canadians.
Your leadership on housing will be missed in Ottawa. Wishing you all the best in your next chapter!
They made it! These modular homes arrived in Ulukhaktok, NWT after travelling by barge to the community.
It’s a great look at how different housing delivery can be across Canada and how modular construction can help respond to the realities of remote and northern communities.
Niagara Falls has backed a major new rental project that will add 1,782 purpose-built rental homes to the city’s core.
The project will transform currently vacant land into long-term rental housing, adding significant new supply in a growing community.
La Tuque will have its first second-stage transitional home for Indigenous people, with five new units and culturally rooted supports developed in partnership with the Atikamekw Nation Council. Different housing needs require different solutions across the full housing continuum.
New rental supply can come from many different models. Sudbury’s Peace Tower Project brings together community-led development, public investment and innovative construction to deliver new rental homes.
Canada needs more approaches that help get housing built.
RHC congratulates Build Canada Homes on its first anniversary. The launch of the $1.5B Canada Rental Protection Fund is an important step toward preserving rental homes and increasing long-term housing supply.
Learn more: bch-mc.ca/news/build-canada-…
RHC welcomes the proposed Building Canada Strong Act’s focus on strengthening supply chains. At a time of continued trade uncertainty, more reliable and predictable access to building materials will be important to delivering much-needed rental housing across Canada.
Purpose-built rental is evolving beyond the unit itself.
Kite Mobility and Tricon Living are bringing shared EVs and e-bikes to eight Toronto rental communities, showing how providers are rethinking mobility, convenience and the broader resident experience.
Esquimalt is gaining 135 new purpose-built rental homes designed for the people who help keep our communities running, including healthcare workers, defense personnel and skilled tradespeople.
Read more: renx.ca/denciti-leans-into-w…
Nanaimo has gained 195 purpose-built rental homes through the conversion of a former TELUS exchange building.
Built to Zero Carbon Design standards, the project shows how existing urban sites can add sustainable rental supply.
Read more: renx.ca/telus-livings-ambiti…
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Canada needs the right conditions to keep purpose-built rental projects moving. FRPO members are diversifying their supply chains, with many sourcing materials from Canadian suppliers. CEO @TonyIrwin74 spoke with @globeandmail about tariff impact: bit.ly/3SZpC4L
