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Public-interest housing infrastructure
Open HousingCanada
Partners

Six doorways into a single shared system.

OHC is designed for a multi-stakeholder housing system. Find the partner pathway that matches your role — and the outcomes you can expect from it.

Partner pathways

A different doorway for every kind of partner.

OHC is built to be useful to the whole housing system — not just one part of it. Every partner type has a clear engagement path and a defined outcome.

Federal / Provincial

Governments & housing agencies

Run portfolio-scale supply analysis on shared, auditable data — not on ad-hoc spreadsheets.

  • Cross-jurisdiction supply visibility
  • Program targeting & uptake
  • Standardized reporting
Nation-led

Indigenous Nations & housing organizations

Plan housing on-reserve and off-reserve under Nation-controlled data, with capacity-building built in.

  • OCAP®-aligned data governance
  • Long-range planning tools
  • Nation-led design tracks
Affordable / Non-profit

Affordable housing developers

Cut weeks of bespoke feasibility work to minutes. Move from idea to deliverable project, faster.

  • Parcel-level pro forma in seconds
  • Permit-ready design templates
  • Lower soft-cost burden
Industrial

Offsite manufacturers

Get demand signal and design-fit alignment so factory pipelines stay full and predictable.

  • Site-to-factory matching
  • Tolerance-aligned typologies
  • Pipeline forecasting
Academic

Universities & students

Use real, harmonized housing data for applied research, capstones, and graduate programs.

  • Research-grade open datasets
  • MBAN / MDS capstone projects
  • Co-publication pathways
Municipal

Municipal planners

Bring your bylaws into rules-as-code and your parcels into the commons — without giving up authority.

  • Bylaw digitization support
  • Inter-municipal benchmarking
  • Faster pre-application reviews
Outcomes

Shared infrastructure produces compounding returns.

OHC’s value is not a single product — it is the cumulative effect of removing friction from every step of housing delivery, for every kind of partner.

Faster feasibility

Parcel-level analysis in seconds instead of weeks.

Lower soft costs

Standardized inputs collapse repeated bespoke work.

Better approval readiness

Submissions arrive aligned with the rules — the first time.

More predictable delivery

Shared data and standards reduce schedule volatility.

Stronger manufacturing pipeline

Demand signal flows from sites to factories, predictably.

Public-good infrastructure

An open, citable, durable foundation for the entire system.

Get involved

Become an OHC partner.

Most partnerships start with a 30-minute scoping conversation — bring your data, your bylaws, your portfolio, or your research question.