Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
What Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Infrastructure and Communities; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada does
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) is responsible for federal policies and programs that support public infrastructure, affordable housing, and community development. Working with provinces, territories, and municipalities, it funds major infrastructure projects and administers the National Housing Strategy, which supports the construction, repair, and preservation of affordable housing. It also oversees the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and supports public transit, clean energy, and community infrastructure through programs such as the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$8.78B
spent by Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
1.8%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada spend its budget in 2025-26?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2025-26
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Public debt charges
Repair and maintenance
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Information
Rentals
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Transportation and communications
Other subsidies and payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
$8.43B
$224M
$43.2M
$41.3M
$22.7M
$8.5M
$6.5M
$4M
$2.8M
$1.5M
$701K
$134K
Total: $8.78B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$224M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada paid, program by program: $8.43B in all, against $8.43B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Investing in Canada Infrastructure ProgramPayments | Contribution | $3,120,767,824 |
| Contributions related to the Canada Community-Building Fund (Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act)Payments | Other transfer | $2,466,830,789 |
| Contributions to not-for-profit organizations, individuals, municipal governments, Band/tribal councils and other Indigenous organizations, public health and educational institutions, Régies régionales, for-profit enterprises, research organizations and research institutes to support activities to help alleviate and prevent homelessness across Canada and to carry out research on homelessness to help communities better understand and more effectively address homelessness issuesPayments | Contribution | $691,446,196 |
| Canada Public Transit FundPayments | Contribution | $528,741,385 |
| New Building Canada Fund-Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component-National and Regional ProjectsPayments | Contribution | $474,532,941 |
| Green and Inclusive Community Buildings ProgramPayments | Contribution | $325,074,123 |
| Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation FundPayments | Contribution | $228,226,354 |
| Canada Housing Infrastructure FundPayments | Contribution | $206,587,038 |
| Contributions under the Building Canada Fund Major Infrastructure ComponentPayments | Contribution | $134,881,665 |
| New Building Canada Fund-National Infrastructure ComponentPayments | Contribution | $75,945,624 |
| New Building Canada Fund-Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component-Small Communities FundPayments | Contribution | $29,855,320 |
| Contributions under the Building Canada Fund Communities ComponentPayments | Contribution | $21,949,820 |
| Natural Infrastructure FundPayments | Contribution | $20,480,772 |
| Veteran Homelessness ProgramPayments | Contribution | $17,418,299 |
| Contributions under the Green Infrastructure FundPayments | Contribution | $16,548,002 |
| 27 programs | $8,425,694,901 | |
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $24,719 | $102,543 | $0 | $1,920,021 | $2,047,282 |
| 2024 | $39,404 | $41,293 | $0 | $1,339,631 | $1,420,328 |
| 2023 | $47,341 | $83,876 | $0 | $1,706,124 | $1,837,341 |
| 2022 | $45,465 | $47,246 | $0 | $1,351,511 | $1,444,222 |
| 2021 | $74,356 | $115,352 | $0 | $697,852 | $887,561 |
| 2020 | $39,084 | $62,843 | $0 | $492,154 | $594,082 |
| 2019 | $81,861 | $127,780 | $0 | $1,065,755 | $1,275,395 |
| 2018 | $89,673 | $193,725 | $0 | $883,578 | $1,166,976 |
| 2017 | $74,886 | $71,603 | $0 | $745,283 | $891,772 |
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Infrastructure and Communities
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
