HOUSING SUPPLY

MIXED-USE PROJECTS, STAFF ACCOMMODATIONS, AND SHORT-TERM RENTAL REGULATION

HOW THE HOTEL INDUSTRY CAN HELP UNLOCK HOUSING SUPPLY

Housing availability affects Canada’s workforce, visitor economy, and long-term community growth. Hotels Canada advocates for policies that unlock mixed-use development, support workforce housing, and protect housing supply.

Our priorities

PROTECTING SUPPLY. SUPPORTING WORKERS. BUILDING MORE.

Canada’s housing challenge requires policies that preserve homes already in the market while enabling employers and investors to contribute new housing solutions.

UNLOCK MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT

Support policies that encourage new housing and hotel accommodation in a single development.

Supporting workforce housing

Enable workforce housing development to support rural and resort hotel employees and ease local housing pressures.

Protect housing supply

Support effective regulation and enforcement that returns illegal and commercial short-term rentals to the long-term housing market while preserving responsible home sharing.

Key Hotels Canada win

Short-Term Rental Engorcement fund

The $50 million Short-Term Rental Enforcement Fund, originally proposed by Hotels Canada, helps municipalities strengthen enforcement of short-term rental regulations and improve compliance.

RESOURCES

Housing Supply

Mixed-use hotel and rental developments can add much-needed housing while expanding Canada’s tourism capacity. Explore how targeted changes to federal financing rules could unlock these projects and create more long-term rental homes, hotel rooms and jobs.

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Brief for the Study on Housing Starts in Relation to Federal Programs in Canada

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Brief for the study of Bill C-20, an act respecting the establishment of Build Canada Homes

This brief seeks to highlight the importance of private partnerships in the establishment of Build Canada Homes (BCH). Hotels Canada supports Build Canada Homesʼ objective to attract private capital to build the homes that Canadians need. To maximize impact, BCH should expand its partnership beyond traditional housing developers and actively engage other developers, such as hoteliers, who are well positioned to contribute to affordable and market-rate housing supply. In establishing this new agency, BCH should also revisit elements of its foundational framework that limit private sector participation.

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