Ryan Collins-Swartz

We (exclusively as Tapestry) are asking for the inclusion of community capital into the financing frameworks of Build Canada Homes -- this means enabling tools like community bonds to stack alongside Build Canada Homes' financing to help scale non-market housing providers. We are asking the government to make changes to the Income Tax Act primarily through changes to what kinds of community capital investments (i.e. community bonds, co-operative shares, and other crowd-financing opportunities etc.) registered accounts can hold, and their respective eligibility rules. We do this work representing the Canadian Coalition for Community Capital, a grassroots network of various organizations in our sector that is 100% funded by Tapestry. Our employee, Suzanne Faiza, is the Coalition Coordinator. We are asking for the creation of partially refundable tax credit to apply to community capital tools (i.e. community bonds, co-operatives shares etc.). We do this work representing the Canadian Coalition for Community Capital, a grassroots network of various organizations in our sector that is 100% funded by Tapestry. Our employee, Suzanne Faiza, is the Coalition Coordinator.