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The 2025 application window is now open
Postdoctoral fellowships
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline: September 11, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
Doctoral students
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline through a Canadian institution with a quota: Contact your institution
Deadline directly to SSHRC: October 17, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
Master’s students
Launch: August, 2025
Deadline: December 1, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
The Housing Research Scholarship Program offers research training awards and supplements to postdoctoral researchers and doctoral and master’s students in the social sciences and humanities. Your work must be related to one or more of the National Housing Strategy’s priority areas for action.

Program Goal
Our goal is to recognize excellence in early-career academic research, advance the creation and sharing of knowledge on housing. We also aim to expand the pool of highly skilled and qualified housing researchers across Canada.
The Program Objectives Are To

recognize excellence in early-career academic research

advance knowledge and application in the field of housing

grow housing research expertise and capacity in Canada
Meet past scholarship winners
2024 Scholarship Recipients
Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Legal discourses of tenant unions in Montréal and Ottawa: Creation of an alternative civil law and common law regarding housing
Structural Violence and Housing Precarity of Women and Gender Diverse Populations
Homelessness and Companion Animals in Ontario, Canada
Doctoral:
Laying the Foundations for a Constitutional Right to Adequate Housing in Canada
Shadow settlements: Tent encampments across the urban-rural divide
Multi-Property Ownerships and the Consequences for Housing and Rental Affordability and Residential Displacement in Ontario, 2015 to 2020
Crisis and Homelessness Governance Network Resilience in Canadian Cities
Master’s:
Exploring duration of homelessness and lack of service usage
Reinventing housing: the common living spaces as a resistance strategy to overcome the housing crisis
Social mixing or state-led gentrification? The Alexandra Park revitalization and its effects on the community
The Role of Community-University Partnership in Supporting a Community-Led Approach to Ending Rural Homelessness
2023 Scholarship Recipients
Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Strategies and challenges for the development of community housing in Montreal's central neighborhoods: analysis of the Parc-Extension
Co-operatives in Crises: Renters' experiences of care in housing co-ops
Going it alone: Geo-narratives of older renters who live alone in the urban periphery of Hamilton and Toronto, ON
Linking housing crisis to deaths of despair: A focus on Canada's metropolitan area
2022 Scholarship Recipients
Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Rental Housing Insecurity in a Public Health Emergency: Evictions, Resistance, and Criminalization of Tenant Organizing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada
Development of resilient cooling measures for mitigating urban heat island and indoor overheating risks in Canada
2021 Scholarship Recipients
Postdoctoral Fellowship:
To Die Equal: A Mixed Methods Study on the Impact of Housing Insecurity on Access to End-of-Life Care and a Good Death
The Financializaton of Student Housing in the Greater Toronto Area
Healthy Ideas+: A Modified Effectiveness Implementation Trial to Improve Cognition in Community Housing
Urban Housing Instability and Substance Use Care Trajectories among Young People in Vancouver
Exploring a Specialized Navigator Role as an Innovative Hospital-Based Approach to Improve the Health and Social Outcomes of People Experiencing Homelessness in Toronto, Canada
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Evaluation of Radon Health Risk in Urban vs Rural houses of Canada and Sweden
Novel methods of characterizing retrofit influences on aspects of indoor environmental quality and occupant comfort
2020 Scholarship Recipients
Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Towards a More Sustainable Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry: A System-wide Approach for Forecasting Growth Impacts, Simulating Alternative Ways, and Advising Future Directions
Linking Self-building and Well-being: Uncovering Capabilities and Promise in Canada and Greenland
From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Unpacking the Logic of Carceraility
Peer Support: Evaluating a Pilot Program Among Homeless Shelter Users
What About Accessory Dwelling Units?: ADU's Role in Regards to Changes in Housing Needs and Their Potential Contribution to a Sustainable (Sub)urban Transformation
Assessing the Impact of Residential Care on the Quality of Life of Autistic Adults
Using an Implementation Science Approach to Design and Evaluate an Integrated Service Model for Seniors Social Housing
Land Use Control, Residential Property, and Local Governance in Vancouver and Toronto: Planning and Policy for Housing Affordability
2019 Scholarship Recipients
The Contemporary Governance and Colonial Genealogy of Evictions in Vancouver
Examining housing-based overdose response interventions in Vancouver
Development of a Crowdsourced HVAC Control System for the Retrofit of Post-War Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
Place-based housing policy for the ageing resource frontier: A study of seniors housing needs, housing options, and age-friendly assets in resource-based communities in Northwest British Columbia, Canada
Densifying the dream: “Missing middle” housing, sustainable suburban growth, and affordability
Autonomous Mobile Manipulators for Community Housing Supply, Sustainability and Operation
Older tenants from racialized communities facing direct displacement in Montreal: Experiences and strategies
Application process
The 2025 application window is now open
Postdoctoral fellowships
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline: September 11, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
Doctoral students
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline through a Canadian institution with a quota: Contact your institution
Deadline directly to SSHRC: October 17, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
Master’s students
Launch: August, 2025
Deadline: December 1, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
Application process and reporting requirements:
- If you’re looking for specific requirements and application deadlines, please refer to the SSHRC joint initiative funding opportunity page.
- In addition to SSHRC reporting requirements, CMHC may reach out to award recipients to obtain information for promotional purposes. Information requests may include:
- research results to date and expected outcomes
- publications and knowledge translation activities
- information about the research that could be used in a CMHC newsletter
- photo of award recipient with research partners (if applicable)
Contact
For questions on applications, merit review process or guidelines contact:
- SSHRC-CMHC Joint Funding Initiative funding opportunity page
General inquiries about the strategy or technical support for CMHC
- Phone: 1-800-668-2642
- Email: nhs-snl_researchawards@cmhc.ca
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