Partners for Affordable Housing Announces Tenant Stability Fund Grants

CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 09, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Partners for Affordable Housing today announced the first round of Tenant Stability Fund grants, distributing more than $860,000 to 10 nonprofit organizations in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Nunavut. The campaign, which is part of the National Housing Week initiative (November 22-28), aims to ensure all Canadians have a safe place to call home. The need is significant, with one in three Canadians facing housing insecurity, and 4.4 million homes needed to alleviate the current housing shortage. The Tenant Stability Fund, which is generously supported by founding donors including RBC, BMO, and the Shaw Family Foundation, provides adaptable funding to trusted nonprofits to support households in accessing, maintaining, or transitioning into affordable housing.

The campaign kicks off with a webinar on November 20, where several funded organizations will share their work. The Tenant Stability Fund takes a different approach to philanthropic giving, giving flexible capital to nonprofits to use at the exact moment when it is needed, for needs that are too urgent, too individual, or too hard to fund through traditional programs. One household may need a deposit, another may need a few months of rent support, and another may need someone in their corner to ensure there is food in the fridge, steady work, and a place that feels like home. The fund complements public programs rather than replacing them.

The Tenant Stability Fund is designed to help people stay housed and move into stable homes while strengthening families and communities. The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society, for example, will use the fund to provide flexible one-time financial assistance to cover the first month’s rent, damage deposits, and move-in costs for shelter guests moving into housing. The Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust will use the fund to support residents with histories of chronic homelessness through a culturally rooted emergency stability fund.

The need and the fund are critical issues in Canada, and Partners for Affordable Housing is working to address them. The organization, which is a national nonprofit, works with public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit provider partners to align capital, strengthen partnerships, and accelerate community-led affordable housing solutions.

The announcement of the first round of Tenant Stability Fund grants comes as the National Housing Week campaign, which includes the webinar, is set to begin. The campaign aims to unite donors, governments, developers, and communities around the housing issue and secure the capital needed to solve it. Partners for Affordable Housing is grateful to its founding donors and to the organizations doing this work every day. Together, they are addressing the crisis.