Program directory · Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada

Community Building

Department: Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
Program code: BYT04 (OICC)
Core responsibility: Public Transit, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Community Building
In Departmental Plans: 2025-26 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Set policies, implement programs, and ensure funding stewardship to build more accessible, sustainable and complete communities.

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

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2025-26. 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).

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.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Community Building	This program	2025-26 – 2028-29	—

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.

No significant changes detected.

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

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Remaining useful life of public infrastructure assets: community buildings

Expected result: Canadians have useable and accessible community infrastructure

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 50%	2027	—	Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

Physical condition of local road assets

Expected result: Canadians have useable and accessible community infrastructure

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 82%	2028	—	Planned

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

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 year	Planned	Actual
2025-26	$4.16B	—
2026-27	$4.12B	—
2027-28	$3.86B*	—
2028-29	$3.74B*	—

Employees (FTEs)

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 year	Planned	Actual
2025-26	146	—
2026-27	130	—
2027-28	125*	—
2028-29	117*	—

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	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29
2025-26 plan	$4,156,638,266	$4,009,064,209	$3,885,633,748
2026-27 plan		$4,117,009,580	$3,861,436,091	$3,741,653,200
Actual

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