BC Housing's Sustainability & Resilience Strategy 2030 sets out our plan for the future. It guides how we create and manage housing. Our goal is to support healthier communities and provide long-term value.
Aligned with our corporate Strategy 2030, the framework guides decisions across BC Housing. It focuses on two outcomes: Climate Resilient and Efficient Housing and Healthy and Inclusive Housing. These outcomes are supported by three key organizational enablers: Governance, Capability and Accountability.
We will track our progress in five areas. These include:
- reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- managing climate risks
- strengthening tenant and client resilience
- getting employees more involved and informed
- buying goods and services in more sustainable and socially responsible ways
Sustainability & Resilience Strategy
Reporting
We measure and report on the impact of our actions through several annual reports.
Climate change accountability report
The Climate Change Accountability Report (previously the Carbon Neutral Action Report) focuses on our actions related to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from all buildings that BC Housing owns and leases, our vehicle fleet, and office paper. This includes hundreds of residential buildings across the province and over one million square meters of floor area. Since 2010, BC Housing has reduced its carbon footprint by 18 per cent through energy efficiency in new construction and energy retrofits, and management in existing buildings.
Sustainability and resilience report
The Sustainability and Resilience Report describes BC Housing’s sustainability and resilience performance for the 2023/24 fiscal year and compares these results to the targets set in our Sustainability and Resilience Strategy.
Employee council
The livegreen Employee Council is BC Housing’s employee-driven “green team”. The Council’s purpose is to initiate activities that raise awareness about sustainability, and to help BC Housing employees make more sustainable decisions at work, home, and in their communities.
Each year, Council creates its own strategic plan to identify sustainability-related activities under four focus areas – home, workplace, food, and commuting/travel.
Examples of past activities and promotions include Meatless Mondays, Bike to Work Week, Commuter Challenge, Paper Challenge, waste reduction campaigns, and hosting information sessions on sustainable local food.
The work of the livegreen Employee Council has contributed greatly to BC Housing being named one of Canada’s Greenest Employers every year since 2015.