Grant and contribution program
Contributions to not-for-profit organizations, individuals, municipal governments, Band/tribal councils and other Indigenous organizations, public health and educational institutions, Régies régionales, for-profit enterprises, research organizations and research institutes to support activities to help alleviate and prevent homelessness across Canada and to carry out research on homelessness to help communities better understand and more effectively address homelessness issues - Unsheltered Homelessness Encampment Initiative
Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities · Housing, infrastructure and transport
In fiscal year 2024–25, Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities paid out $122 million under Contributions to not-for-profit organizations, individuals, municipal governments, Band/tribal councils and other Indigenous organizations, public health and educational institutions, Régies régionales, for-profit enterprises, research organizations and research institutes to support activities to help alleviate and prevent homelessness across Canada and to carry out research on homelessness to help communities better understand and more effectively address homelessness issues - Unsheltered Homelessness Encampment Initiative. That is $4.06 per tax filer.
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$122M
Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.
Largest recipients
The largest named recipients of payments reported under this program in 2024–25. Location is the recipient's address, which is not always where the money is spent. Recipient payments can differ slightly from the program total above because the Public Accounts report them separately.
| Recipient | Location | Paid | Per tax filer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux | Quebec, Quebec | $24.8M | $0.83 |
| British Columbia Ministry of Housing | Victoria, British Columbia | $19.9M | $0.66 |
| Government of Alberta | Edmonton, Alberta | $17.5M | $0.58 |
| City of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario | $12.9M | $0.43 |
| Regional Municipality of Peel | Brampton, Ontario | $6.7M | $0.22 |
| Regional Municipality of York | Newmarket, Ontario | $5.4M | $0.18 |
| City of Ottawa | Ottawa, Ontario | $5.2M | $0.17 |
| The Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation | Winnipeg, Manitoba | $3.7M | $0.12 |
| Regional Municipality of Durham | Whitby, Ontario | $3.2M | $0.11 |
| Regional Municipality of Waterloo | Kitchener, Ontario | $2.7M | $0.09 |
Source and basis
- Detailed information on Transfer Payments, as per the Public Accounts of Canada, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Recipients: Detailed information on Transfer Payments, as per the Public Accounts of Canada.
- Net expenditures of this transfer payment program in the Public Accounts. It overlaps with program spending, so do not add the two.
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