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Canada Greener Affordable Housing program │ Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

January 1, 1900

Value

Fund 100% of eligible retrofit costs, up to $170,000 per unit. For pre-retrofit activities, the maximum contribution is $130,000 per project.

Description

Canada Greener Affordable Housing helps affordable housing providers complete deep energy retrofits on existing multi-unit residential buildings.

Funding Opportunities:

  • Pre-Retrofit Funding – For activities like energy audits, energy modelling studies and building condition assessment reports needed for a Retrofit Funding application.
  • Retrofit Funding – For deep energy retrofits that will reduce rental buildings energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Now accepting applications on a continuous basis until the available funding has been fully committed.

Eligible Applicants

To be eligible for this funding, you must have an affordable housing purpose and a proven mandate to provide housing to lower-income households or populations in need. This funding is open to:

  • community housing providers such as non-profit housing organizations, public housing agencies and rental co-operatives
  • Indigenous governments and organizations including First Nations, Tribal Councils and Indigenous housing providers
  • provincial, territorial and municipal governments

Private market housing organizations are not eligible for this funding.

Eligible property types:

  • mixed income rental or mix-use with affordable rental housing
  • community housing
  • affordable rental housing
  • Indigenous community housing and cultural spaces
  • Shelters, transitional and supportive housing
  • Single-room occupancy

Eligible Expenses

This program provides forgivable and low-interest loans to help finance building retrofit measures and activities needed to meet climate goals. It also supplies contributions for pre-retrofit activities needed to plan, prepare and apply for retrofit funding.

  • CMHC will fund 100% of eligible retrofit costs, up to $170,000 per unit (low-interest repayable and forgivable loans combined). Forgivable loans will be the lesser of: $85,000 per unit, or 80% of eligible retrofit costs. Low-interest loans will be available to finance the rest.
  • For pre-retrofit activities, the maximum contribution is $130,000 per project.
  • The project must be primarily residential and have at least 5 units or beds. Buildings must be at least 20 years old.
  • Applicants must meet a municipal, provincial, territorial, Indigenous government or CMHC program affordability criteria. Applicants can also follow other affordability criteria such as rent-geared-to-income, low-income, moderate-income, established income or rent limits/thresholds.

Deadline Date

The Canada Greener Affordable Housing program is currently closed to new applications, as it has received sufficient applications to fully commit its budget. Please visit the official CMHC website for any future updates or related funding opportunities.

Contact

Contact Name: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Phone Number: 1-800-668-2642

E-mail Address: contactcentre@cmhc.ca

Website: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/project-funding-and-mortgage-financing/funding-programs/all-funding-programs/canada-greener-affordable-housing-program

Industry:

Housing, Indigenous, Municipalities, Non-Profit

Location:

Alberta, British Colombia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Tags:

ABmunis, Energy, Retrofit

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