Question Period Note: Build Canada Homes

Public Services and Procurement Canada is collaborating with Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada and the Canada Lands Company to develop a stable, predictable federal land pipeline for Build Canada Homes.

• Budget 2025 reorients how the Government delivers infrastructure funding to support needs across the country
  • As one of the largest federal custodians of real property, Public Services and Procurement Canada is leveraging its surplus and underutilized public lands to support government priorities, such as affordable housing
  • Public Services and Procurement Canada is taking action to accelerate federal property disposal for housing development

Budget 2024 aimed to unlock 250,000 units by leveraging surplus and underutilized public lands across the country by 2031.

Public Services and Procurement Canada has facilitated the disposal of federal lands by launching the Canada Public Land Bank website, the Government of Canada's official online inventory of surplus and underutilized federal properties. There are currently 88 properties listed, representing the potential for approximately 42,500 housing units on a total of 463 hectares of land across Canada.

• On September, 2025, the Government launched Build Canada Homes—a new federal agency that will build affordable housing at scale. BCH’s mission is to build and finance more affordable homes, while catalysing a new housing industry
  • In August 2024, Public Services and Procurement Canada launched the Canada Public Land Bank which currently lists 88 properties available for housing development
  • These properties have the potential for approximately 42,500 housing units on a total of 463 hectares of land across Canada