Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan

A Community Improvement Plan (CIP) is a tool in the Planning Act that enables the town to incentivize the provision of affordable housing, among other matters, within private development.

To inform the development of a CIP, the Town has completed its Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) and prepared a Community Improvement Plan Background Study and Options Report and Jurisdictional Scan which were received by Council at the September 8, 2025 Planning and Development Council meeting.

Council received the updated Community Improvement Plan Background Study and Options Report at the May 4, 2026 Planning and Development Council meeting with the following direction to staff: 

•  Plan and conduct public workshops for the public and Council input for a draft CIP and for consideration of an eventual draft CIP, with costing;
• Provide Council a detailed report on ARU take up in Oakville, including numbers permitted and built; and
• Report on possible roles for the Halton Housing Services Manager in a CIP