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Strategic analysis and actionable insights to help address Canada’s housing supply, affordability, and sustainability challenges.
Major Reports
A Housing Trifecta: How governments can tap private capital to improve supply, sustainability and affordability
The urgency to leverage and enlarge the pool of capital available for new housing construction is becoming greater.
High Rise, Low Carbon: Canada’s $40 billion Net Zero building challenge
Buildings have long been at the heart of Canada’s emissions problem. Heated by gas furnaces, powered by coal-fired electricity
Articles
Building the Future: What to watch as Build Canada Homes takes shape
The six things that will be key to BCH’s success as it aims to tackle the country’s housing crisis
Climate Briefing: A Smart Heating Solution For Canada’s Fiscally-Strained Municipalities
Policymakers in Canada’s fastest growing cities face a triple challenge over the next decade…
Building Blocks: Addressing Canada’s Housing Crisis with Innovation and Prefabricated Construction
On February 16th, RBC, the Task Force on Housing and Climate, and BC Housing joined forces to host a roundtable discussion in Vancouver to address…
Timber Rising: How Wood Can Spur Canada’s Green Building Drive
The building sector is the 3rd most emission intensive sectors in Canada, accounting for 13% of all emissions in 2022 or 92 MT of CO2e.
Smart Buildings, Smart Productivity
The emerging field of so-called smart building technology, are now pushing towards a bigger goal: saving the planet, one building at a time.
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