Housing support

Are you an adult with a psychiatric, physical or intellectual disability who needs help paying for your board and lodging costs? The Board and Lodging Supplement can help.

The Home Energy Savings Program (HESP) can give a grant up to $5,000 to help you in making retrofits to your home to make it more affordable and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This grant is for homeowners with incomes of $32,500 or less.

If your income is $46,500 or less and you need to make changes to your home to make it more accessible, the Home Modification Program (HMP) can give you a forgivable loan up to $7,500 or a repayable loan up to $10,000.

Individualized Living Arrangements (ILAs) provide additional financial help, above the basic income support for adults with an intellectual disability with no other service option and unable to live with their natural family.

There are options available for seniors for Long-Term Care Facilities and Personal Care Homes. You may also be able to get financial subsidies to lower the costs you would pay.

The Provincial Home Repair Program (PHRP) provides financial help for homeowners with low incomes to make structural and related repairs to their home. Included are improvements in basic heating, electrical and plumbing services.

The Rental Housing Program can help you if you are living on a low income and you cannot get suitable and affordable rental housing on the private market. If your rent is not paid through Income Support, your rent will be based on 25%of your total net monthly income.

If you are a person with a disability who needs a high level of home support and you choose to share the cost of a living arrangement and home support staff with another person, this benefit can help. Shared Living Arrangements provide additional financial help, above the basic income support, for home support staff and other related costs provided by the Regional Health Authorities (RHAs).

The Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit is a new refundable tax credit for the costs of certain renovation expenses to an eligible dwelling to establish a secondary unit. The secondary unit must allow a senior or an adult who is eligible for the disability tax credit to live with a qualifying relative. This amount may be claimed on your tax return (starting from the 2023 tax return).