CMHC Housing Research Awards

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.

2020 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 award recipients

• 2019 Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence:
  Eliminating 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and young adult homelessness Understanding how Canada’s first 2SLGBTQIA+ 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 award recipients

• 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.