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Now accepting applications for the 2021 awards
Deadlines vary. Get more details on specific Award pages.

The CMHC Housing Research Awards support research teams and recognize activities that are impactful and innovative in Canadian housing including:

  • housing research
  • research training
  • knowledge mobilization and outreach

The awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture across all fields related to housing.

You can be awarded up to $20,000 and recognized for your work you’ve put into fields related to housing in Canada. Your research can be in the social sciences and humanities, health and technology—the caveat is that your research must tie back to housing across Canada.

Choose the award that will compliment your research:

  • CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding Housing Research (Theme : Racialized Groups and Housing in Canada) ($20,000)
  • Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence ($10,000)
  • Gold Roof Award for Knowledge to Action ($10,000)
  • North Star Award for Northern or Remote Research (2 or more up to $5,000)

The Housing Research Awards in action: Find out how researchers in Toronto  received $10,000 from the CMHC Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence for their critical research into youth homelessness. Find other similar success stories here.

Am I eligible to apply?

The following are eligibility requirements for all awards. You, the lead applicants must be: 

  • a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada
  • an active researcher, student or individual working in housing
  • in good standing with CMHC
  • able to undertake research applicable to one or more of the strategy’s priority areas for action or address Northern or remote housing

Notes: Award-specific eligibility criteria are located on each award page and related Applicant Guide. If you have won in the past, you can’t apply for the same award again.

Learn more about past award winners

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.

Previous Award Recipients

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.

Get in touch with us for more information about the Housing Research Awards.
Innovation-Research@cmhc.ca
1-800-668-2642

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