Ottawa to get eight affordable housing projects and over 1,100 rental homes under Budget 2026

The federal government outlined on Sunday, November 8, how Budget 2026 housing investments will reach Ottawa: through the Build Canada Homes partnership, the city will see eight affordable housing projects that will build more than 1,100 new rental homes.

A nearly $30-billion national commitment

Mona Fortier, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the member of Parliament for Ottawa–Vanier–Gloucester, highlighted the investments in Ottawa. The package is part of a nearly $30-billion national commitment to expand housing options, strengthen essential services and help more Canadians find safe, stable homes, the government said.

It includes $6.5 billion to renew the Reaching Home initiative, including support for veterans experiencing homelessness; $5.5 billion to renew the Canada Housing Benefit, which gives low-income Canadians monthly help with rent; $10 billion through Build Canada Homes to deliver about 25,000 supportive and transitional homes across Canada; $5 billion for a new Integrated Supports Fund, which will build facilities combining housing with health care, mental-health and addictions treatment; and $2 billion for community mental-health and addictions treatment facilities.

Ottawa's community housing provider welcomes the plan

Stéphane Giguère, chief executive of Ottawa Community Housing, said the organisation has the experience and capacity to deliver at scale and welcomed the federal government's continued commitment to affordable, non-market housing. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Budget 2026 would help lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty and put Canada on a path to end homelessness.

(The image with this article is a file photo of a residential construction site.)