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Program directory · Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada

Homelessness Funding Oversight

Program code
BYB04 (OICC)
Core responsibility
Public Infrastructure and Communities Investment Stewardship and Delivery
In Departmental Plans
2022-23 – 2024-25 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

Homelessness projects comply with agreements.

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

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2021-22. 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).

2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Homelessness Funding Oversight 2021-22: $336MHomelessness Funding Oversight 2022-23: $489MHomelessness Funding Oversight 2023-24: $603MHomelessness Funding Oversight 2024-25: $752MHomelessness Funding Oversight 2025-26: $516MHomelessness Funding Oversight 2026-27: $244MHomelessness Funding Oversight
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
Homelessness Funding OversightThis program2021-22 – 2026-27$2.18B

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
2022-23Employees (FTEs) 51, against 7 in 2021-22 (+629%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2022-23Spending $489M, against $336M in 2021-22 (+46%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2024-25Indicators added: Reaching Home grants projects comply with agreementsDepartmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2025-26Planned spending $516M, against $752M in 2024-25 (−31%).Latest Departmental Plan
2026-27Planned spending $244M, against $516M in 2025-26 (−53%).Latest Departmental Plan

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Reaching Home contributions projects comply with agreements
Expected result: Homelessness projects comply with agreements
100%2022-23✓ met100%2023-24✓ met100%2024-25✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2022-23≥ 100%2023100%Met
2023-24100% – 100%2024100%Met
2024-25100% – 100%2025100%Met
Reaching Home grants projects comply with agreements
Expected result: Homelessness projects comply with agreements
100%2024-25✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2024-25100% – 100%2025100%Met
Veteran Homelessness Program projects comply with agreements
Expected result: Homelessness projects comply with agreements
100%2022-23✓ met100%2023-24✓ met100%2024-25✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2022-23≥ 80%2023100%Met
2023-24100% – 100%2024100%Met
2024-25≥ 100%2025100%Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2021-22: $336M2021-222022-23: $507M2022-23: $489M2022-232023-24: $503M2023-24: $603M2023-242024-25: $537M2024-25: $752M2024-252025-26: $516M2025-262026-27: $244M2026-27
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
2021-22—$336M
2022-23$507M$489M
2023-24$503M$603M
2024-25$537M$752M
2025-26$516M*—
2026-27$244M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2021-22: 72021-222022-23: 552022-23: 512022-232023-24: 522023-24: 562023-242024-25: 552024-25: 582024-252025-26: 532025-262026-27: 472026-27
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
2021-22—7
2022-235551
2023-245256
2024-255558
2025-2653*—
2026-2747*—

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

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