City Implementing Housing Strategy Through Burlington Lands Partnership

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As part of the investments in the 2023 Operating and Capital Budget, the City of Burlington is providing one-time funding to help implement our Housing Strategy through our Burlington Lands Partnership (BLP) and Community Planning Department.This will help our city meet the 12 action-oriented housing objectives and implementation plan laid out in our Housing Strategy.BLP is working hand in hand with the Community Planning Department to implement action items from the housing plan as follows:

  • Action 1: Clearly define the City's role and responsibility in supporting a diversity of housing options that are attainable at all income levels.
    • BLP has been working to clarify the City’s role in attainable housing/land partnerships.
  • Action No 2: Act as a connector and partner in the housing system by identifying opportunities to connect people and providers to resources and information related to meeting housing objectives.
    • BLP has been engaging partners to better understand the attainable housing ecosystem and identify opportunities to connect people and providers. Some partners we have engaged include: the Region of Halton, Options for Homes, Habitat for Humanity, the JOY Group, Cavendish Co-op, the Anglican Church, Halton Women’s Place, Destaron, and Halton Multicultural Council.
  • Action No 10: Identify underused properties, including government owned and non-government owned sites that could be used for housing.
    • BLP Staff worked in conjunction with Community Planning Staff on report PL-53-22: City of Burlington Housing Strategy – former school site reuse analysis
    • BLP has engaged a number of partners with sites that could be used in housing.

Together, BLP’s work towards actions 1, 2, and 10 will be outlined in more details at a Council Workshop on attainable housing partnership options in Q2 2023 and a Request for Expression of Interest to seek attainable housing partnerships in Q3 2023.A key next step will be creating a structured and phased formal “intake process” for potential community-wide land related partnerships to support increasing in the City’s attainable housing supply.To learn more, please visit the City's Housing Strategy dedicated webpage.Additional Resources:

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