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Consultation has concluded
The City of Grande Prairie is developing an Affordable Housing Strategy. The strategy will lay out how the City will work towards improving housing affordability and ensuring that people have access to housing that meets their needs.
The strategy will replace the Affordable Housing Master Plan 2011-2021 to provide an updated vision for housing initiatives in the City. The 2011 to 2021 master plan lead to numerous initiatives and contributed to the creation of over 100 non-market housing units. The strategy will be an updated plan to reflect current housing needs in the community.
The City of Grande Prairie is developing an Affordable Housing Strategy. The strategy will lay out how the City will work towards improving housing affordability and ensuring that people have access to housing that meets their needs.
The strategy will replace the Affordable Housing Master Plan 2011-2021 to provide an updated vision for housing initiatives in the City. The 2011 to 2021 master plan lead to numerous initiatives and contributed to the creation of over 100 non-market housing units. The strategy will be an updated plan to reflect current housing needs in the community.
The draft Affordable Housing Strategy is complete and can be downloaded from the Document Library on the right side of this page.
The City of Grande
Prairie is conducting this survey to support the creation of an Affordable
Housing Strategy. The survey will help us better understand how housing costs
impact people in the community and who is most in need of support. The
information will help the City determine what kinds of services to develop for
the community.
The survey is 23
questions and takes approximately 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
Consultation has concluded
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Affordable Housing Strategy has finished this stage
In this phase, engagement is being done to assess community housing needs. This information will be used to set targets and make other decisions in the following phases.
Phase 2: Identify and Review Options
Affordable Housing Strategy has finished this stage
In this phase, the City is considering all the options for addressing the needs that they identified in phase 1. Some engagement is being done to gather feedback on the strategies being considered.
Phase 3: Strategy Preparation
Affordable Housing Strategy has finished this stage
In this phase, City staff are drafting the Affordable Housing Strategy based on the information gathered during the first 2 phases.
Phase 4: Strategy Refinement
Affordable Housing Strategy has finished this stage
In this phase, the draft strategy is available for review and City staff are receiving feedback. The draft strategy will also be presented at an Open House. The feedback will be used to refine the strategy before it is presented to City Council for consideration.
Phase 5: Strategy Adoption
Affordable Housing Strategy is currently at this stage
In this phase, City staff will present the proposed Affordable Housing Strategy for Council to consider adopting at a Public Hearing. During the Public Hearing, members of the public will have the opportunity to share their opinions about the plan with Council.
