Get financing through the Canada Greener Affordable Housing program

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.

Highlights

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.