The policy offers a 20-year property tax exemption for affordable housing developments led by non-profit and cooperative housing providers.

A new deeply-affordable development in Kitchener will see 20 townhomes built for women who are victims of intimate partner violence, and their children.

Proposal would see Habitat for Humanity charity get the land for free to develop 1,010 low-cost homes.

The region and more than 40 community partners completed the count on Oct. 22 as part of the nationally co-ordinated Reaching Home Program: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy.