Canada’s housing crisis isn’t only about building more homes. It’s also about keeping people housed, supporting those at risk of losing housing and creating pathways out of homelessness, and improving access to existing housing.
That’s why Partners for Affordable Housing has created the Tenant Stability Fund, designed to help nonprofit and community housing organizations create and scale programs to stabilize tenancies, prevent eviction, and create clearer pathways to permanent affordable housing.
While new housing supply may take years to deliver, housing instability happens in real time. A job loss, illness, or unexpected expense can quickly push a household into crisis. The Tenant Stability Fund fills this urgent gap by funding rapid interventions that prevent eviction, support exists from homelessness, preserve existing affordable rental housing, and reduce costly and traumatic impacts of housing insecurity.
What is the Tenant Stability Fund?
The Tenant Stability Fund provides grant funding to nonprofit and charitable organizations working to keep people housed. It supports proven strategies such as rental assistance, eviction prevention programs, transition supports for individuals and households moving out of homelessness, and tenant support services that reduce barriers to housing and help households move forward with dignity.
The Fund does not provide funding directly to individuals. Instead, grants are made to nonprofit organizations that work with households experiencing housing insecurity. Priority is given to organizations supporting people both at immediate risk of eviction or currently experiencing homelessness, or those facing financial or systemic barriers to accessing and maintaining affordable housing.
Who can apply for funding?
The Tenant Stability Fund is open to nonprofit and charitable organizations working to support people facing housing instability. This includes registered charities, nonprofit housing providers, community-based eviction prevention and housing stabilization organizations, and Indigenous governments or service organizations.
Applicants should have experience supporting low-income or vulnerable households and the ability to deliver financial assistance and tenant supports quickly and responsibly.
What activities are eligible?
The Tenant Stability Fund is intentionally flexible. Eligible uses of funds include:
- Short-term rent supplements or rental subsidies
- Emergency financial assistance to prevent eviction
- Utility arrears and other housing-related costs
- Wraparound tenant supports and stabilization services
- First month’s rent and damage deposits
- Move-in and relocation costs
Up to 15% of the grant may be used for administrative and operating costs.
The goal is simple: stabilize households earlier, support transitions out of homelessness, reduce costly downstream impacts, and strengthen nonprofit-led housing stability systems.
How to get involved
Housing stability is essential infrastructure. If you’re working on the front lines of eviction prevention and tenant support, we want to connect.
The Tenant Stability Fund uses a two-stage intake process, starting with a short concept submission through Front Door.
Add your project to Front Door
Email frontdoor@pfah.ca to get an account.