A CMHC-SSHRC Joint Initiative: Collaborative Housing Research Network

The Network is expected to:

1. Generate New Knowledge by conducting research across a nationally-linked network of researchers and housing related stakeholders (across all disciplines)
   
   
2. Bridge Gaps Between Research Outcomes And Impact On Housing by:
   • accelerating translation of research discoveries into applications, best practices and/or the marketplace
   • developing, validating and evaluating interventions that change significant aspects of practice
   • evaluating the outcomes of different housing interventions to identify and document health, social and other impacts

Each funded team involves academics, community organizations, students, and other interested partners, and be rooted in principles of community-based research.

The Collaborative Housing Research Structure

Research Teams bring together a unified group of researchers and other stakeholders. Each node will be coordinated by a project director and responsible to focus on one thematic research area—supporting the National Housing Strategy priority areas of action.

These individual teams link together, via the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative. In this “network of networks”, research activities and creating knowledge will be greater than the sum of its parts.

The Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative coordinates research collaboration and planning internally between the research teams. They do the same externally for academia, government and the housing community. It will also manage reporting and focus on knowledge mobilization within the network and externally. External knowledge mobilization will include developing and managing a website including a blog and other related activities.

Watch the Minister’s message that relates to this program.

Six teams were funded under the initiative. The Knowledge Mobilization Hub coordinates knowledge sharing on behalf of the research teams. Each team below has a project profile available for you to learn more

Knowledge Moblization HUB:

Dr. James Dunn, McMaster University, The Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative

Read an article by Dr. Dunn about the need for research to solve for housing affordability and how CHRN contributes.

Research Teams:

Dr. Sarah Canham, Simon Fraser University, Aging in the right place: Building Capacity for Promising Practices that Support Older People Experiencing Homelessness in Montréal, Calgary and Vancouver.

Dr. Julia Christensen, Memorial University of Newfoundland, At home in the North: New partners for northern housing security and homes

Dr. Damian Collins, University of Alberta, Community Housing Sustainability: Building a Resilient Community Housing Sector in Canada

Dr. Penny Gurstein, The University of British Columbia, CMHC-SSHRC Balanced Supply of Housing Node

Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid, Cape Breton University, People, Places, Policies and Prospects: Affordable Rental Housing for those in the Greatest Need