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Program directory · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Housing expertise and capacity development

Program code
BGL00 (CMHC)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation provides timely evidence-based information, data and analysis to support informed decision making by government and other sectors. It also conducts research and disseminates information on a range of issues that support affordability and choice, including sustainable housing technologies. Policy advice is provided to the government on matters such as housing finance, housing needs, capital markets and housing conditions. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation supports capacity and skills development activities within the housing sector, connecting individuals and organizations with the resources and knowledge to develop responsive and innovative approaches to further affordable housing.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Housing expertise and capacity development 2018-19: $103MHousing expertise and capacity development 2019-20: $136MHousing expertise and capacity development 2020-21: $147MHousing expertise and capacity development 2021-22: $140MHousing expertise and capacity development 2022-23: $169MHousing expertise and capacity development 2023-24: $1.19BHousing expertise and capacity development 2024-25: $1.34BHousing expertise and capacity development
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Housing expertise and capacity developmentThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$3.23B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Spending $136M, against $103M in 2018-19 (+32%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2023-24Spending $1.19B, against $169M in 2022-23 (+604%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $103M2018-192019-20: $136M2019-202020-21: $147M2020-212021-22: $140M2021-222022-23: $169M2022-232023-24: $1.19B2023-242024-25: $1.34B2024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19—$103M
2019-20—$136M
2020-21—$147M
2021-22—$140M
2022-23—$169M
2023-24—$1.19B
2024-25—$1.34B

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.