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The Challenge

Ontario municipalities are under pressure: deliver more homes, faster. The Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) provides crucial resources, but success depends on more than funding alone. Municipalities must prove they can cut approval timelines, modernize permitting, and meet ambitious housing targets.

The Opportunity

To unlock and sustain HAF funding, communities need to:

  • Accelerate building permit approvals and reduce bottlenecks
  • Digitize inspections and reviews to keep housing projects moving
  • Engage residents and developers transparently
  • Track progress and report on outcomes to demonstrate results

Meeting these requirements takes technology that’s ready to go.

Why Accela

Accela is the proven partner for governments delivering housing at scale. More than 600 agencies across North America rely on our Civic Applications to accelerate permitting, licensing, and inspections.

With Accela, municipalities benefit from:

Prebuilt Workflows for Building Permits

Designed from industry best practices and refined with hundreds of jurisdictions, Accela’s workflows help you get up and running quickly, reducing time to value while ensuring compliance.

Streamlined Digital Approvals

Online submissions, automated routing, plan review integration, and mobile inspections move applications seamlessly from start to finish.

Configurable Best Practices

Our templates can be tailored to local rules while maintaining proven efficiencies, ensuring faster approvals without sacrificing oversight.

Action Plan Compliance

Real-time dashboards track permit volumes, approval timelines, and housing milestones, helping you demonstrate HAF progress and secure continued funding.

Public Transparency

A modern, easy-to-use portal keeps residents and developers informed, improving trust and reducing phone calls and counter visits.

The Result

By combining prebuilt best practices with proven technology, Accela helps municipalities achieve faster housing approvals, measurable HAF outcomes, and lasting improvements in how communities grow.

Put your HAF funding to work today.

Get housing projects moving faster with Accela’s ready-to-deploy permitting solution.

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