Inclusive and Affordable Housing

Our Objectives

Develop a national initiative for transforming housing and supports for people with an intellectual disability from congregate, segregate options to inclusive options in community.

Secure political commitment to reforming the Registered Disability Savings Plan to enable people with an intellectual disability to access their savings for homeownership.

Secure political commitment from three provinces/territories to end admissions for people with an intellectual disability to nursing homes, rehabilitation centres, and long-term care residences, provide transparent data on admissions, and transition people to live in inclusive housing in community.

Why It Matters

While many large-scale institutions in Canada are closing, almost 30,000 adults with an intellectual disability live in congregate residential facilities and group homes, with little or no control over where and with whom they live or how they spend their days.

More than 10,000 adults with an intellectual disability under the age of 65 are living in nursing homes because they cannot access inclusive housing and the supports needed to live in community. With recent federal “rapid housing investments” through the National Housing Strategy, there is a disturbing re-emergence of congregate options as a solution to housing availability.

Our Vision

People with an intellectual disability have the supports they require to live in typical homes in community, where they can exercise choice and control over their lives.

How You Can Help

Inclusion Canada hosts free, 45-minute Inspiring Inclusion Tours to raise awareness of Inclusion Canada’s work toward building an inclusive Canada for people with an intellectual disability and their families.

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Our Work

What We're Doing

Inclusion Canada is advocating to stop federal investment in congregate housing options for people with disabilities. We’re pushing to have this money used for inclusive community options instead.

Through our national My Home My Community initiative, we’re creating tools and providing guidance to help policymakers, housing developers, and funders develop inclusive housing in community. We’re spreading awareness about how to move toward community living for all people with an intellectual disability, including people currently institutionalized.

We’re also involved in legal cases holding governments accountable for confining people with disabilities to institutions, and requiring these governments to recognize living in community as a human right.