About the HNA Blueprint
The HNA Blueprint is not just a toolkit; it is the result of an applied research project that sought to update and standardise how Housing Needs Assessments are undertaken in Canada. Born from frustrations with a status quo that consumed too much of a community's attention and resources while leaving too many shortcomings unaddressed and opportunities unrealised.
Watch our webinar presentation and read more below to understand the HNA Blueprint as well as the systemic challenges that inspired its creation, and the federal Research and Knowledge Initiative that produced it.
The HNA Blueprint: Introductory Webinar
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A practical, scalable, and standardised approach establishing a new best-practice methodology for conducting Housing Needs Assessments for Canadian municipalities and regions. It addresses inconsistent, bespoke, and labour-intensive status quo processes.
Designed for municipal and provincial staff, community groups, service providers, housing developers and operators (both non-market and private market sectors), consultants, and policy researchers.
Communities across Canada can use and build on this comprehensive package of free templates, guidebooks, and datasets to streamline their local and regional housing analysis.
Traditional HNA processes remain inconsistent across time and place, presenting heavy barriers for smaller communities and making a regional understanding hard to distill from a patchwork of local analyses.
The project was made possible by the support of the Government of Canada's federal Research and Knowledge Initiative in partnership with the Government of Prince Edward Island.
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