A catalyst for the growth of community housing in Canada

The Centre provides funding, services and tools to support the preservation and growth of the community housing sector. It aims to unite the sector around a 20% housing market share by leveraging its strengths.

Services

Make the most of our services to strengthen your organizational and management capacity, expand your knowledge, and advance your career in the sector.

Funding

Find the right financial support for your project through national, provincial, and territorial funds administered by the Centre.

Resources

Access hundreds of resources on community housing issues, curated for you by the Centre.

My Centre Portal

Create and access your My Centre account to submit applications and benefit from exclusive tools.

RentSmart

This program equips educators to teach the skills required to build healthy, lasting rental relationships between tenants and landlords.

Will you help us amplify our impact by sharing your real world experience?

We’re inviting you to take part in an initiative to reflect on your projects: what went well, what was challenging, and what you have learned. We’d like you to share as many short stories as you can about your experience with a Centre-funded project, whether as a lead, a partner, or a participant.

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News

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Centre News, Growth

Impact of tariffs on housing: Upcoming shock and solutions

The newly imposed tariffs risk triggering job losses, reducing purchasing power, and slowing down construction. With rising inflation and stagnant wages, more and more Canadians will struggle with housing affordability, […]

Les femmes face à la crise du logement : défis et solutions

Centre News, Inclusion

Women and Canada’s housing crisis: Challenges and solutions

While Canada’s housing crisis affects everyone, housing and homelessness issues affect women in especially severe and complex ways. The financialization of housing has aggravated housing scarcity, the pandemic has exacerbated […]

The findings of the report bring into focus what has long been known: the supply of rental housing is not keeping up with demand, and while construction is gradually increasing, it is unable to meet the needs of Canadian households. This is driven by a series of factors such as population growth and the fact that ownership is unaffordable for many households.

Centre News, Growth

According to CMHC’s rental market report, the crisis is still growing. What role can the community housing sector play?

Last month, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its annual rental market report. The conclusions are not surprising: the crisis is getting worse, as we have been observing […]

The history of Black communities housing in Canada is a story of persistent discrimination, segregation, and inequality. From Nova Scotia’s eastern shores on the coast of Africville in the early 1960s stretching across to as far west as Hogan’s Alley in British Columbia end of the 1960s, fast-forwarding to present-day Little Jamaica in Toronto, the Black population has endured and still endures housing discrimination that puts building Black communities at continuous risk.

Centre News, Inclusion

Reinforcing Black Canadian communities through housing transformation

The history of Black communities housing in Canada is a story of persistent discrimination, segregation, and inequality. From Nova Scotia’s eastern shores on the coast of Africville in the early […]