Consolidated Housing Master Plan
The Consolidated Housing Master Plan is a key initiative under Niagara's Affordable Housing Strategy. It guides Niagara Regional Housing in developing new community housing units across the region through 2050.
The initial plan, developed in 2022, included an inventory of existing and potential building sites and estimated the number of housing units Niagara would need by 2050 to meet projected demand.
Housing Master Plan
To learn more, download the Consolidated Housing Master Plan Implementation Plan.
Highlights of the plan
In 2025, Niagara Region updated the plan with an implementation guide that outlines a 25-year roadmap to finance and build critical housing.
Key components of the updated plan include:
- A strategy to build 2,983 housing units by 2050, doubling the current number of community housing units
- Redeveloping existing Niagara Regional Housing properties to add more housing on current sites, reducing potential land acquisition costs and increasing project delivery certainty
- Aligning new housing types with the needs identified on Niagara Regional Housing's centralized wait list
Cost of the plan
With Council's endorsement of the implementation plan, a commitment to a significant investment in needed housing will go forward to the Budget Review Committee for approval.
The proposed commitment includes:
- Niagara Region will fund 25 per cent of the expected costs, amounting to $546 million
- The plan includes an incremental annual general levy investment ranging from 0.105 to 0.195 per cent
- Additional funding will come from selling underused land and reinvesting end of mortgage savings
Working together to deliver affordable housing
To deliver the plan successfully, Niagara Region will need co-investment from the provincial and federal governments to build the affordable housing our communities urgently need. The plan is designed to respond quickly to funding opportunities by maintaining a portfolio of 'shovel-ready' construction projects.
Through the plan, Niagara Region and local municipalities will also work together to eliminate development application review and permitting fees for projects led by Niagara Regional Housing, non-profit organizations and co-operative housing providers.
The plan also lets us better understand which non-profits are ready and able to build housing using expressions of interest, so Niagara Region can support these projects.
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