Whereas under the authority of the Housing Supply Act, the Province of British Columbia has imposed mandatory housing targets on local governments to accelerate housing delivery, including affordable below-market expectations; And whereas In Budget 2026, the Province indefinitely paused new intakes to the Community Housing Fund, its main capital program supporting non-market and affordable rental housing delivered by local governments and non-profit housing providers, thereby stalling or cancelling projects and stranding pre-development investments; And whereas local governments rely on sustained capital investment from the province to deliver non-market housing, and cannot meet imposed housing targets if the supply finance chain is broken: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM urge the Province of British Columbia to immediately reinstate the Community Housing Fund and provide predictable, ongoing capital funding to support the delivery of non-market and affordable housing; And be it further resolved that UBCM ask the Province to provide a lump sum of funding to try to salvage related cancelled or stalled projects, with an emphasis on purpose-built rental builds, transitional housing, affordable housing, accessible housing, culturally supportive housing, and non-market housing; And be it further resolved that UBCM call on the Province to align housing target orders with the availability of provincial housing funding, and to refrain from penalizing municipalities for unmet targets resulting from the withdrawal or suspension of provincial housing programs beyond municipal control.
