From concept to shovel-ready to under construction.
Across Canada, thousands of housing projects are stuck between the drawing board and the site fence: landowners with land but no builder, Indigenous communities with housing demand but no financing, developers with capital but no shovel-ready sites, municipalities with serviced land but no delivery partners, and manufacturers with capacity but no projects.
The Shovel-Ready Registry is Canada’s housing project exchange. Every project enters the pipeline. Every missing piece becomes visible. Every investor, builder, architect, engineer, Indigenous organization, municipality, and government agency sees the same pipeline.
Open Housing Canada
National convener
- · Standards & housing readiness framework
- · Data governance
- · Project verification
- · Public reporting
Open source and public good.
BuildBlox
The operating system
- · Intake, GIS & parcel intelligence
- · AI readiness scoring
- · Matching engine & project CRM
- · Capital & builder marketplaces
Commercial software layer.
How scoring works
Every project receives a readiness score out of 100 across four dimensions: site readiness (land control and servicing, 30 points), capital readiness (financing and program support, 25 points), team readiness (design, delivery, and operations roles, 25 points), and regulatory readiness (approvals stage, 20 points). Scores of 85+ are Shovel-Ready — investment ready. The score is transparent, rules-based, and recalculated as a project fills its gaps.