The primary goal of the St. Catharines Municipal Development Corporation (MDC) incorporated in 2024 is to deliver initiatives that will create more attainable and affordable housing. The MDC will act as the lead developer and marketer for municipally owned real estate assets through negotiation and partnership development with the private sector. The St. Catharines MDC aims to facilitate one of the City’s mandates for the creation of housing units through collaboration with private sector and non-profit partners to develop housing and mixed-use transit-oriented development of the city’s surplus land holdings and the strategic acquisition of properties ready for redevelopment.