2021 award recipients
2021 CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding Housing Research:
Improving housing stability among Indigenous residents at Horizon
Housing:
Shedding light on what might reduce the rate of negative exits among
Indigenous residents at Horizon Housing.
2021 CMHC Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence:
Who Does the Welfare State Support, and How?
Housing for Moderate-Income Households in Three Canadian Provinces,
1975–2015: Closer Targeting of Vulnerable Citizens.
2021 CMHC Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence:
Skookum Housing Solutions: Innovative Indigenous Research in Surrey,
BC:
Taking a look at the rapidly changing urban Indigenous population in Surrey
to address systemic housing inequalities.
2021 CMHC Gold Roof Award for Knowledge to Action:
K’asho Got’ı̨nę House Assessment Research Project:
Exploring the conditions of privately-owned homes in Fort Good Hope as well
as the impact of repair and maintenance.
Previous award recipients
2020 CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding Housing Research:
The Impact of Short-term Rentals on Canadian Housing
Using data collection and analysis to investigate the effects of short-term
rentals in Canada
2020 CMHC Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence:
Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Affordable Housing
A clear and easy-to-follow guide from the Alberta Rural Development
Network
2020 CMHC Gold Roof Award for Knowledge to Action:
Step-by-Step Guide to Estimating Rural Homelessness
Collecting data on homelessness and housing insecurity in rural and remote
Canadian communities
2020 CMHC Gold Roof Award for Knowledge to Action:
Community Benefits of Supportive Housing
A tool to address community questions about supportive housing for people
experiencing homeslessness.
2019 Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence:
Eliminating LGBTQ2S youth and young adult homelessness
Understanding how Canada’s first LGBTQ2S transitional housing program
Impacts outcomes for youth
2019 Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence:
Metro Vancouver Transit‐Oriented Affordable Housing Study
Studying the challenges and opportunities of developing affordable rental
housing close to transit.
2019 CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding Housing Research:
Innovative solutions to affordable housing challenges
Partnerships for Affordable Housing: Policy, Planning and Community
Building.
2018 CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding Housing Research:
SEKUWE (My House), Dene First Nation Views on Healthy Homes
Using a ‘two-eyed seeing’ approach for housing and health
creates culturally appropriate housing.
2018 Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence:
Understanding Rental Housing in a Smaller Community
Understand how poverty, abuse and addiction were identified as the main
causes of homelessness.