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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

Media Release re: Violence Against Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Women experienced more frequent, and often more severe, violence during the pandemic, creating new challenges for violence against women services and their clients, a newly-released study has found.
Our Partners
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
Our Funders
The Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative received funding from National Housing Strategy, under the Collaborative Housing Research Network, however, the views expressed here are the personal views of the author(s) and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation accepts no responsibility for them.