Spring is a season of momentum, and we’re seeing meaningful progress across our portfolio, even amid one of the most significant shifts the housing sector has faced in years...

A practical self-assessment tool to evaluate whether your organization, projects, and pipeline are truly positioned to attract capital in today’s environment.

Purpose Driven Development has pivoted from program navigation to a Capital & Delivery Certainty Platform to ensure projects continue advancing, regardless of which funding programs are open. We bring real-time insight into emerging priorities and align your strategy accordingly. 

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls while others build windmills.”

How we’re helping clients navigate uncertainty, shifting financing, and new national housing tools.

With trade tensions rising between Canada and the U.S., new tariffs are creating fresh challenges across the development landscape. For clients, lenders, and partners working on large-scale concrete and rental projects, these supply chain disruptions have real consequences for budgets, timelines, and delivery certainty.

At Purpose Driven Development, we’re actively managing these risks on current projects in construction.

Affordable housing development faces significant hurdles, with project financing standing as one of the most persistent challenges—especially in the non-market housing sector, where maintaining affordable rents is a top priority. Despite substantial support from government lenders, many projects struggle to secure necessary financing or fail to deliver on affordability promises.

At Purpose Driven Development, we recognize that economic shifts and evolving trade policies can create challenges for development projects. However, one fact remains clear: there is always a fundamental need for rental housing at all income levels to support the long-term sustainability and economic vitality of our cities and our economy.

As we approach the end of 2024, we wanted to take a moment to share some highlights from our team and thank our amazing clients, collaborators, and friends for an outstanding year.

Housing for Women by Women - ...the first of its kind in Canada to be developed, designed, and delivered by an all female team. The project at 546 W 13th is an effort between Vancouver based Purpose Driven Development and Planning and non-profit Soroptimist International.

Strategies for First Nations Land Development: Unlocking Economic Potential

New tools to build social connection in multi-unit housing

Journal of Commerce: Affordable 13-Storey Tower in Vancouver Built by Women for Women

From Micro-Housing to Multi-Family: What Does Housing 2.0 Look Like?

How Housing For Everyone Creates Thriving Communities For All

Songhees Housing For Wellbeing: Innovative, Community-Driven First Nations Housing

From our team at Purpose Driven Development and Planning, thank you for your continued trust and support during this unprecedented year. Despite its challenges, 2021 has brought us, our partners and clients exceptional achievements and highlights which we would like to spend a moment to share.

Truth and Reconciliation is not something confined to a day or a month. We work with our First Nations partners together towards the key calls to action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report.

Affordable Vancouver Housing Development For Women, By Women

All-Women Development Team Advances Social-Housing Project Near Vancouver City Hall