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Highlights of CMHC’s National Housing Conference
Date
6 January 2025
In March 2024, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation hosted a national housing conference on the theme “Unlocking Solutions Together,” which was attended by housing professionals from across the country, including the Agency’s CEO, Olga Tasci. CMHC has recently released a report entitled What We
A New Look for Federations and Management Company Snapshot Reports
Date
9 January 2025
It’s not just our co-op clients who benefit from performance data from the Agency. We also like to share aggregated data with our stakeholders and earlier this fall, we released an updated version of our one page Snapshot Reports.
For management companies and co-op housing federations, these reports
Action Plan Basics
About Co-ops
A housing co-operative is a democratically controlled association formed to provide housing for its members. The typical Canadian housing co-operative owns houses or apartments and rents them to members for an indefinite period of time on a non-profit basis. When a member moves out, their membership
Celebrating the First Year of the Rental Assistance Calculator
Date
8 April 2025
The Agency celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of the Online Calculator for the Rental Assistance Program (FCHI-2) earlier this year
Last year, we completed the onboarding of all housing co-ops in the program. We can’t give enough thanks to the co-op managers, property management staff and
Rental Assistance Program Tips and Tricks - Edition Number 1 2025
Revolutionizing Affordable Housing: CMHC’s New Affordable Rental Innovation Fund
Date
20 October 2016
The goal of the Affordable Rental Innovation Fund is to encourage new funding models and innovative building techniques in the rental housing sector. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is looking for unique ideas that will revolutionize the sector moving forward. In the process, the
Housing Need Stable in Canada, 1.7 Million Canadian Households Affected
Date
22 November 2017
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Statistics Canada, are releasing the core housing need figures from the 2016 Census. In 2016, the rate of core housing need in Canada stood at 12.7%, representing 1.7M households. This new data indicates the proportion of Canadian households in
Tip of the Month
Co-ops without Paid Managers
Since 2007, the percentage of co-ops without paid help is down by more than half to a mere 2% of Agency clients. Another 12% just have a lonely bookkeeper.