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Round 5 of the Housing Supply Challenge is now closed.
Let’s revolutionize Canada's housing production capabilities! We want to increase the adoption of transformative, system-level solutions that enable the quicker delivery of both community and market housing.
Collaboration is encouraged but must undergo separate evaluations, tailored to their specific objectives and challenges.
Eligibility: Non-profits, governments, Indigenous organizations, post-secondary institutions and more.
Offering solutions for:
Eligibility: For-profits, non-profits, governments, Indigenous organizations, post-secondary institutions and more.
Providing solutions for:
Both streams can collaborate but will be assessed separately to address specific challenges and opportunities. The Level-Up Challenge also offers non-financial support, including mentorship, guidance, and showcase opportunities to enhance innovators' impact and foster partnerships.
Lengthy development timelines, connected to various issues, inflate housing costs.
Level-Up is addressing the entrenched housing affordability crisis in Canada. To increase housing productivity, we must transform the housing sector to meet the nation's housing needs more swiftly and cost-effectively.
Level-Up’s goal is to scale system-level solutions like skill enhancement, automation and streamlined supply chains to expedite housing provision. Successful solutions will lead to quicker development, reduced costs and permanent improvements in Canada's housing delivery process.
Level-Up offers a dedicated stream for Community Housing Innovators and a general stream for All Housing Innovators.
Applicants in the Housing Supply Challenge will be evaluated by an expert Challenge Jury based on the following criteria:
Both streams will be assessed independently to account for the different barriers and opportunities facing them.
Level-Up has 3 stages. Advancement through the stages will be based on the applicant’s:
Innovators must prove that their solutions can lead to more housing, faster. Up to 20 foundational solutions will receive a $1,000,000 prize.
Innovators must prove that they have achieved buy-in and adoption from housing providers and they have a strategy to scale. Up to 10 next level solutions will receive a $3,000,000 prize.
Innovators must prove that their solution is a game-changer for the housing system. These solutions have proven to be the most reliable, most cost-effective avenues in the Challenge to generate significantly more housing, significantly faster.
Up to 3 game-changer solutions will receive a $5,000,000 prize.
To amplify and sustain the impact of the Level-Up Round, CMHC is running a separate application process for “Scaling Hubs.”
These hubs are intended to be a consortium of talent that offers custom support in-person and remotely across Canada. The Scaling Hubs will run in parallel to the Level-Up Challenge and will provide a range of non-financial supports to Level-Up Innovators. Organizations with a track record of providing effective mentorship and programming for growth-stage innovators are encouraged to apply.
Email: challenge@cmhc.ca
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