Completed Access to Information Requests

All documentation, included but not limited to correspondence, emails, recommendations, responses, conferences, symposia, memos, policy documents, action plans, briefing notes, images, plans, reports or studies related to and/or mentioning:
Urban, regional and/or community planning and subdivision and design review activities of CMHC and its employees from 1946 to approximately 1970 both individually and/or jointly with Wartime Housing Limited and/or the Community Planning Association of Canada.

This request is part of a SSHRC-funded academic research project from a Queen's University professor titled "How Canada Became a Suburban Nation: The Role of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Reviewing Canadian Community Planning" It is widely acknowledged that Canada is now a "suburban nation", but how did it make the transition from urban to suburban so quickly after World War II? The Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation was established as a federal Crown agency to implement national housing objectives in the post-war recovery period. However, CMHC was also tasked with implementing the federal government's national community planning objectives. The agency played a major role in transforming Canada into a suburban nation by 1980. CMHC reinforced the suburban trajectory by publishing planning handbooks, establishing national standards, seeding a national network of planning schools, importing planners and designing and developing federal lands.