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What is CHEC?
The Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC) is the knowledge mobilization hub for the Collaborative Housing Research Network, a pan-Canadian, cross-sectoral network dedicated to providing the evidence needed to meet the goals of Canada’s National Housing Strategy.
Teams across Canada are engaged in cutting edge housing research on thematic nodes. We help get that academic research into the hands of people who can put it into action.In support of the National Housing Strategy we:
- Connect policy makers, researchers, housing providers and people with direct experience of where the housing system is not working
- Identify research priorities
- Facilitate access to housing data
- Build Canada’s housing research capacity

The Five Nodes of Research

DeMille Place Impossible without Generous Volunteers & Partnerships
Author: Rev. David Turner, St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Original Post Date: September 12, 2019 Since 2016, a team of extremely hardworking volunteers from St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Hampton, N.B. has been striving to realize their dream of providing housing for...
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More Partners. . .
- Canadian Housing Policy Roundtable
- Canadian Research Data Centre Network
- Centre for Urban Research and Land Development, Ryerson University
- City of Hamilton
- Community Housing Transformation Centre
- Federation of Canadian Municipalities
- Fleming College
- Indwell
- Maytree Foundation
- New Brunswick Non-Profit Housing Association
- Research Impact Canada / York University
- Statistics Canada
- Stillbrook Accessible Retirement Residences
- United Way Canada
- Université de Québec à Montréal
- University of Adelaide
- University of Alberta
- University of New Brunswick
- Vox Pop Labs
- Wellesley Institute
- YWCA Hamilton