SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
What Works: Securing Affordable and Special Needs Housing through Housing Agreements
Description Local governments often rely on Housing Agreements to address a community’s housing policy objectives – such as increasing the supply of affordable housing, facilitating the supply of special needs housing, or preserving or protecting housing over the long term. The What Works: Securing Affordable and Special Needs Housing through Housing Agreements project highlights best practices for entering into, administering and enforcing Housing Agreements.
The resource guide includes:
• Emerging and proven best practices for entering into, administering, monitoring and enforcing Housing Agreements. This includes best practices from the Metro Vancouver region and other jurisdictions in British Columbia • Sample terms and conditions, as well as agreement templates, for municipal staff to consider when drafting Housing Agreements for various types of housing, such as: affordable homeownership, secured rental housing, rental units in a strata/mixed tenure housing, non-market housing, and special needs housing • Effective monitoring and enforcement strategies for Metro Vancouver munici palities administering Housing Agreements. This includes identifying strategic partners, roles, and responsibilities (for example, BC Housing and Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation) Impact The resource guide is intended to help local governments employ Housing Agreements to facilitate non-market housing development and secure long-term affordable or special needs housing.
Resource guide available at www.metrovancouver.org
Status:
Partners: Metro Vancouver Awards: 2020 Silver Award for Excellence in Planning
Practice, City & Urban Areas – Planning Institute of British Columbia
Audience: Municipal planners,
housing policy personnel, the development industry, and non-profit housing providers
30 HOUSING RESEARCH & EDUCATION PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS | JULY 2021
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