Hello CHAI Members,

CHAI participated in a town hall meeting hosted by MLA Dave Taylor on Affordable Housing Solutions. From this meeting Dave's office has draftered a document "Toward an Alberta Affordable Housing Strategy"

This document I think could be a great tool for CHAI members to look at in exploring the issue of the housing crisis.

Some of the initiates advocated for in the report include:

Secondary suites
Rent supplements
inclusionary zoning
land transfers for affordable housing
affordable housing incentives for land owners
enhancing tenant protection
encouraging home ownership
construction limited modle (business model for building/creating affordable housing)

These are all intersting options and many are ones that CHAI has discussed. If anyone is interested in this document please email me at angela@housingaction.ca

I will try and upload the document soon.

Angela