Housing Supply Challenge Round 5 – Level-Up

Explore the semi-finalists and their solutions for transforming the way Canada delivers housing.

Tapestry Community Capital
One Bowl
BC Housing
UTILE
Alliance des corporations d'habitations abordables du territoire du Québec (ACHAT)
Vancity Community Foundation
RJH Architecture + Planning
Mddl
Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN)
EllisDon Community Builders
Innovation Building Group Ltd.
Association des groupes de ressources techniques du Québec (AGRTQ)
Resimate Inc.
Ratio.City, a division of Esri Canada
Serotiny Group
Flourish (Indwell)
ReHousing
Promise Robotics

Tapestry Community Capital

Scaling affordable housing development with the power of community investment

This initiative provides a platform, administrative support and project consulting to help community housing providers in raising low-cost capital through community bonds. It enables regular Canadians to contribute to meaningful local projects.

One Bowl

Tree to Home

This Indigenous-led Standing Tree to Standing Home approach addresses housing supply chain challenges and opportunities in partnership with First Nations. It will create local economies for market housing and improve the quality, quantity and affordability of housing within Nations. This will be done by using innovations in timber construction and a social enterprise framework.

BC Housing

Prequalified digitally designed for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) "blueprint" designs and prefabricated modules and components for mid-rise residential structures

This project aims to make the delivery of mid-rise housing more efficient by standardizing the development process. It will focus on creating component designs suitable for manufacturing and assembly and using a prefabrication configurator.

UTILE

Modular manufacturing: An integrated approach to drive mass uptake

This initiative will facilitate the large-scale adoption of modular construction, focusing on student housing as a consistent, high-volume end-product. It is establishing a consortium of stakeholders dedicated to identifying and solving barriers across the modular construction delivery chain.

Alliance des corporations d'habitations abordables du territoire du Québec (ACHAT)

The ACHAT effect: Faster and more professional

This project is enhancing the professional capacity of non-profit housing organizations by pooling expertise and resources into a centre of excellence. It is enabling eight member organizations to adopt a portfolio approach and benefit from economies of scale to expand community housing.

Vancity Community Foundation

Reaching new heights: Scaling the Vancity Affordable Housing Accelerator Program across Canada

This project plans to expand the successful Vancity Affordable Housing Accelerator Program across Canada in partnership with other credit unions. Its goal is to enhance access to capital for early-stage planning and pre-development costs for community housing projects.

RJH Architecture + Planning

Infill Catalyst Program

This initiative aims to assist cities in reviewing and revising regulations and investments to establish a viable business model for multi-unit infill housing. It identifies which areas can benefit from replicable and modular infill and how to catalyze developments that support the city's goals.

Mddl

The Middle Housing Platform

This project is sharing the tools, designs and step-by-step approaches that enabled Mddl to deliver hundreds of middle housing units. To achieve this, the project team is collaborating with municipalities, industry and homeowners to identify the most practical and efficient pathways for gentle density. These strategies are designed to empower the delivery of more housing for and by a diverse range of multi-generational users.

Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN)

Speeding up construction with communal services at the local level

This project will simplify the administrative process for adopting communal service systems instead of individual private ones like septic systems. This change will enable more housing options and allow higher density construction in rural municipalities.

EllisDon Community Builders

Template design for affordable/supportive housing developments

This project provides a turnkey design, construction and financing solution specifically for affordable and supportive housing providers. It promotes cost and schedule certainty for multi-site projects in Canada.

Innovation Building Group Ltd.

Open access library of standardized high performance low cost multi-unit residential building designs ready for building permit anywhere in Canada

This project will build an open access library of high performance, low-cost multi-unit residential buildings. By providing builders with ready-to-use drawings and specifications for buildings that have proven to be a success, this project intends to accelerate the design, permitting and purchasing process.

Association des groupes de ressources techniques du Québec (AGRTQ)

Accelerator hub for innovation in community financing

The project is building out an expert hub designed to assist community housing providers in optimizing their funding strategies. It combines innovative financing approaches and industry expertise to create more housing with the same amount of public subsidy.

Resimate Inc.

The Resimate Marketplace: Streamlining detached accessory dwelling unit development

This project streamlines the modular construction process for accessory dwelling units through a centralized online marketplace. The marketplace brings together accessory dwelling unit manufacturers and development support to offer homeowners a turnkey solution that makes building accessory dwellings quicker and easier.

Ratio.City, a division of Esri Canada

Ratio.City: Scaling data nationally to accelerate housing approval times

This initiative provides online collaboration tools that give planners and developers access to shared data on development potential, precedence, process and compliance. The goal is to speed up the application and approvals process for new construction.

Serotiny Group

Scaling hybrid-timber construction with a decentralized supply chain

This initiative will focus on scaling affordable and sustainable housing across Canada by combining product-based design and decentralized manufacturing. It will use prefabricated hybrid-timber construction.

Flourish (Indwell)

Flourish: Empowering communities for affordable housing action

This project focuses on expanding expertise in creating supportive housing. It aims to empower governments and community organizations across Canada by connecting them with reliable development partners. These partnerships will leverage underused assets or borrowing capacity to enable supportive housing projects.

ReHousing

A Canada-wide multiplex conversion system: Pre-approved plans and pro forma tool for converting single-family homes to multiplexes

This initiative will scale a web platform offering pre-approved housing designs and financial planning tools. It is designed to help homeowners explore opportunities to convert single-detached homes into multi-unit housing.

Promise Robotics

Homebuilding robotic factory-as-a-service for industrialized homebuilding at scale

The project will scale a ready-to-deploy homebuilding robotic factory as-a-serviceTM designed for autonomous and rapid production of timber-based buildings. Promise Robotics manages automation, allowing partners to focus on homebuilding. The goal is to scale decentralized manufacturing of prefabricated buildings.