A major focus of the Housing Research Collaborative will be data generation, analysis, and aggregation. Recognizing that housing research, particularly in the home province of British Columbia, has been hampered by gaps in the collection of data, as well as lack of accessible data, a Data Working Group has been formed to articulate critical research questions and to outline data needed to answer these questions. The Group is now developing guiding principles for collection and accessibility of data. It is anticipated that this assessment of housing data infrastructure and research will provide the foundation for a reconsideration of the housing system, including its constituent elements and associated definitions.