Inclusive Housing in BC and Canada 2025



Updated: May 15, 2025

Resource type: Research report
Research theme: Policy, Practice and Ethics
Language: English

Description

This work was prepared for the Summer Foundation and includes a jurisdictional scan of housing in Canada. a more focused jurisdictional scan of housing in British Columbia (BC)and Key Informant study mapping housing options available to people with disabilities in BC.

Full information

The Disability Housing in Canada report provides a comprehensive jurisdictional scan of disability housing initiatives and policies across Canada, offering insights into federal, provincial, and territorial efforts to address accessibility, affordability, and inclusivity in housing for individuals with disabilities. It explores key residential models, funding structures, governance roles, and oversight mechanisms, synthesizing findings to inform future policy and practice in Canada and beyond.

 

This BC-focused work builds directly on the Canada-wide disability-housing scan completed by our team earlier in 2025. That national review covered all 13 jurisdictions – ten provinces and three territories – plus the federal tier, and it revealed a landscape best characterized as patchworked and fragmented

The Key Informant qualitative study set out to map the range of housing and living options currently available to adults with disabilities in British Columbia, examine how that range has evolved over the past 15–20 years, and analyze the strengths, limitations and cross-cutting challenges identified by key stakeholders (self advocates, families, service-provider executives, policy leaders, and front-line practitioners).