How can we build more affordable housing in Canada?
What We Do
Build
Cahdco specializes in creating affordable housing by providing real estate development project management consulting to non-profit organizations in Ottawa & Eastern Ontario. Cahdco can assist in identifying the project concept and to test its financial viability and project feasibility. If the project is feasible then we can help manage the project development until it is built and tenants have moved in.
Advise
Cahdco provides real estate advice & capacity for government’s, non-profit organizations and faith groups seeking to create affordable housing. Cahdco can help your non-profit create a development strategy, help faith groups identify affordable housing partners and financially model development scenarios.
Teach
Toolbox+ by Cahdco is a national affordable housing development community of practice. Toolbox+ provides learning and networking opportunities that increase affordable housing knowledge and organizational capacity. Cahdco provides custom workshops on how to develop & finance affordable housing and GoNoGo, an affordable housing development role playing game.
Toolbox+ Programs
Structures
Structures is an introduction to the construction process of affordable housing, from design development to project closeout. It will now be hosted as a 4 half-day intensive. Registration is currently closed.
Blueprints
An intensive training that covers the basics of affordable housing development, and how to complete project feasibility study. This training is for gaining an understanding of critical development activities and how to take a project from a concept to making a go- or no-go decision. Registration is currently closed.
Advisory Services
Cahdco offers a variety of advisory services to take your affordable housing project to the next level!
Recent Projects
Bell Hall
The Bell Hall project in North Grenville is a retrofit project that will be turning the former Kemptville Campus dorms into 60 units of affordable rental for seniors and veterans. Sustainability is a top priority and the renovation will preserve the embodied carbon of a longstanding concrete building rather than opting for full demolition, which […]
Salus 56 Capilano
56 Capilano Drive is a four-story supportive housing building in Nepean, Ottawa. Completed in April, 2026, this apartment complex is Canada’s first “ageing-in-place community” that supports older adults navigating complex challenges with mental health and addictions, and/or are at-risk of homelessness. 56 Capilano offers 54 affordable studio apartments, including 8 units designated as barrier-free. The […]
La Source (L’Arche Ottawa)
L’Arche Ottawa is a non-profit charity located in the Ottawa region serving people with developmental disabilities since 1972. L’Arche provides supported housing services in homes where people with and without developmental disabilities share life together. L’Arche Ottawa is proposing a re-development project on their currently owned site located at 844 Hare Avenue. The proposed re-development […]
CCOC 240 Presland Road
After a fire in the previous 32-unit, CCHC owned-and-operated affordable housing property, tenants were relocated and the remnants of the previous building were demolished. CCOC is proposing a 6-storey, OBC Part 3 wood-framed construction, with approximately 70 affordable housing units. The proposed project will provide a mix of unit types, at different affordable rental rates. […]
