Municipal Financing
A growing, curated resource hub for materials on gentle density, related to the topic of: Municipal Financing
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A Voter’s Guide to Asking Candidates about Housing
This voter guide, developed by Small Housing and Strong Towns, gives residents ready-to-use questions to ask candidates at all-candidates meetings, on…
Canada’s housing supply shortages: moving to a new framework (CMHC, June 2025)
Reframing the Challenge CMHC’s latest report marks an important shift in how Canada understands and measures housing need. By focusing on…
Making Missing Middle Pencil: The Math Behind Small-Scale Housing Development (2024)
A Terner Center report exploring barriers to financial feasibility of missing middle housing projects.
Small-Scale, Multi-Unit Housing: Toolkit for Local Governments (2024)
Toolkit intended to help local governments and their community members understand the legislative changes introduced related to SSMUH
Guidance Paper: Gentle Density & Land Economics
Expert roundtable discussion of tenure options, leveling the cost playing field and reducing risk, and building in affordability
Costs of Providing Infrastructure and Services to Different Residential Densities (2023)
A Metro Vancouver study that investigates the cost of providing infrastructure and services to neighbourhoods with varying residential densities, with the…
Missing Middle Solutions Lab (2021)
This report from CMHC & Keesmaat Group looks to address some of the main land use policy, project financing and design…
Opening Doors: Unlocking Housing Supply for Affordability (2021)
Opening Doors is the final report from the B.C. – Canada Expert Panel on the Future of Housing Supply and Affordability,…