Program directory · Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
Homelessness Investment
- Program code
- BYC04 (OICC)
- Core responsibility
- Public Infrastructure, Communities, and Homelessness Investments
- In Departmental Plans
- 2022-23 – 2024-25 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
Support projects related to homelessness (e.g. through Reaching Home streams) to which funds can be committed
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2022-23. 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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homelessness Investment | This program | 2022-23 – 2026-27 | $22.3M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Budget 2022 measure “A New Veteran Homelessness Program”: $61M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2022, PDF page 72 |
| 2023-24 | Employees (FTEs) 55, against 0 in 2022-23 (—). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2024 | Budget 2024 measure “Addressing Homelessness and Encampments”: $1,287M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2024, PDF page 99 |
| 2024-25 | Indicators added: Homelessness funding through the Veteran Homelessness Program is committed to projects; Homelessness funding under Reaching Home is committed to projects | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2024-25 | Indicators dropped: Homelessness funding committed to projects | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | ≥ 100% | 2025 | 99% Following a reallocation exercise, $168,279.50 was lapsed for fiscal year 2024-25. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | ≥ 100% | 2025 | 100% | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | ≥ 100% | 2023 | 97% According to 2022-23 year-end results for Reaching Home, there was a 3% lapse in funding. The lapsed funds were largely under the Distinctions-based Approaches stream due to the need for further work on the co-development of approaches to homelessness. | Not met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 100% | 2024 | 96.3% Funding allocated to the Veteran Homelessness Program in 2023-24 was not issued as agreements were not yet in place. Small lapses under Reaching Home also occurred (approximately 1.2%), largely under the Distinctions-based Approaches stream. | Not 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
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | $9.9M | $9.6M |
| 2023-24 | $5.3M | $6.5M |
| 2024-25 | $5.1M | $6.2M |
| 2025-26 | $4.9M* | — |
| 2026-27 | $4.1M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | — | 0 |
| 2022-23 | 83 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | 45 | 55 |
| 2024-25 | 54 | 54 |
| 2025-26 | 52* | — |
| 2026-27 | 46* | — |
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 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 plan | $9,908,528 | $9,112,396 | $8,273,563 | ||
| 2023-24 plan | $5,252,621 | $4,807,996 | $4,573,465 | ||
| 2024-25 plan | $5,054,796 | $4,880,084 | $4,056,060 | ||
| Actual | $9,608,474 | $6,517,391 | $6,186,667 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
