Pre-Retrofit Funding for multi-unit residential buildings │ Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)

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 include:

• 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

NOTE: the non-residential component of the property is not to exceed 30% of total gross floor space.

Eligible housing types need to ensure that projects must:

• be primarily residential
• include at least 5 units or beds
• be a minimum age of 20 years old:
  • Flexibility on building age may apply to Indigenous*, Northern, or remote located organizations

    *Indigenous applicants do not need to be located in a Northern or remote area for flexibilities to be considered.