Building Affordable Rental Housing in Unaffordable Cities: A Canadian Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Marion Steele () and Francois Des Rosiers
Additional contact information
Francois Des Rosiers: Laval University

C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, 2009, issue 289

Abstract: Many Canadian cities are short of affordable rental housing. Waiting lists for low-income housing are years in length, and new-build construction of rental housing has fallen over the last two decades. This study proposes a better way to build more low-income housing in expensive Canadian cities. A made-in-Canada Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) could leverage private sector expertise in site location, building, and management to build more and better low-income rental housing.

Keywords: social policy; Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation; social housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 I38 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cdhowe.org/public-policy-research/buil ... e-housing-tax-credit (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cdh:commen:289

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in C.D. Howe Institute Commentary from C.D. Howe Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kristine Gray ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).