Community Housing Summer News

Funding Available at the Centre

As community housing providers and organizations are getting ready to organize projects this fall, we want to share a tool summing up our funding process and eligibility criteria. We would love for you to share this information with all service providers and sector organizations who might be eligible to obtain funding. Please read the flyer and share it with any interested organization you may know!

We Have a New Look!

We are proudly sharing our website's new structure, design, and content! Check out our project news blog, the InfoCentre, and don't miss out on our Resource Centre section, featuring a sector Toolkit, Project Highlights, a Resource Inventory, and the Self Assessment Tool for community housing organizations. To the website

Our Work at the Centre

Volunteer Reviewers at the Centre: Meet Angela Marston

Angela Marston is the Director of Indigenous Relations at Innovations in Health Society and a Senior Consultant at Four Salish Winds Consulting. She spends a lot of her professional time advising organizations on Indigenization and supported the Centre with her expertise. Read the interview

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Project News: Greener Co-op Microgrants

The Centre has made a contribution of $100,000 from our Sector Transformation Fund – Local Projects to promote environmental sustainability—one of our key priority areas. Let's encourage more co-ops to reduce greenhouse gases, improve air quality, or adapt to climate change in different ways. A great program to go green and inspire communities with best practices! Read more

Project News: Orleans Housing Advisory Committee

The OHAC came together in 2018 as a coalition of 5 small housing providers to strengthen the community sector in the eastern region of Ottawa. They joined forces to better serve their community to develop shared expertise and capacity to lever their assets. Read more

Community Housing Sector News

Montréal: $ 15 million more for Community Housing

The Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ made a substantial contribution to support housing projects in Montreal. A greatly needed increase of funding during the pandemic and affordable housing crisis in Montréal. Read the article

Survey about Canada's Community Housing Sector

It's still time to participate in the Centre's survey about the well-being of Community Housing in Canada. It is aimed at reaching the many organizations providing housing to thousands of Canadians. Fill out the survey and share the news!

Women's Right to the City Manifesto

What makes a city? If you ask Ana Falú, Director of INVIHAB Research on Housing and Habitat Institute at University of Córdoba, it’s an inclusive urban planning design, bridging unequal relations between men and women in society—realities often neglected by traditional city design and planning. Read the publication and like our Facebook page!

Sector Events

Right to Home—A week to (re)imagine housing and shelter

Have you missed an interesting online conversation on the new reality under COVID-19? Most webinars have been recorded and you can listen to them here.