Want to help build 3,000 homes by 2022?
The federal government has set aside $1 billion through the CMHC to create 3,000 housing units within a year.
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Covid-19 exposes Vancouver’s low-income housing crisis
On October 15, the city of Vancouver unanimously approved a $1-billion plan to acquire all 105 of the city’s Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels and turn them into social housing. Tenants' rights groups are applauding the landmark move,...
National Housing Day: COVID-19 highlights dire housing needs
This year, COVID-19 has turned millions of lives upside down, and the pandemic has also exposed glaring needs in the housing sector. National Housing Day 2020, Sunday, November 22, is the occasion for an even greater awareness of lodging needs and the work that remains to be done.
Toronto: COVID-19 worsens plight of residents struggling to pay the rent
Driving a clear connection between food insecurity and unaffordable housing, the 2020 Who’s Hungry report details the impact of COVID-19 on food bank users. While managing debt was already a concern for many Canadian households, with reports that over half of...
Local Projects
Sector Transformation Fund
Enhance the capacity of your local organisation to provide affordable housing in a better way.
Sectoral Impact Projects
Sector Transformation Fund
Develop new services, models or tools to help the sector build and manage affordable housing.
Community-Based Tenant Initiative Fund
Tenant engagement projects that aim to involve tenants in housing decisions that impact them and in defining services.
Discover how we can help you apply to other grants
Rapid Housing Initiative
CMHC Fund
The RHI is $1-billion program to help address urgent housing needs of vulnerable people through the rapid construction of affordable housing. The deadline for applications is Dec. 31, 2020.
Sustainable Affordable Housing
FCM - Green Municipal Fund
Reap environmental, social, and economic benefits by achieve higher energy performance of your affordable housing project.
Affordable Housing Catalyst Fund
The Catalyst Fund supports practical and collaborative projects which will lead to larger changes in the community-housing sector of the city of St. John’s, N.L. The deadline for applications is Friday, Nov. 27, 2020.
