Serving our Members

CHRA is a member-based organization that represents organizations, municipalities, and individuals from every Canadian province and territory. We believe in housing for all and work to strengthen the community housing sector through advocacy, research, partnership, and member services.

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We recognize it takes all kinds and types of people and organizations to advance affordable housing and eliminate homelessness. Your membership plays a key role in strengthening the community housing and homelessness sector. Our team is looking forward to serving you through advocacy, knowledge dissemination, networking opportunities, events and much more!

CHRA brings the affordable housing sector together to accomplish what cannot be done individually. Together we make a difference!

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CHRA's work is made possible through the support of our members, partners, and sponsors.

Partner with your national association. Work with us to make difference for affordable, social, non-profit housing in Canada!

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Events

October 8-9 2024 | 1:00-3:00pm (ET)

Online course - The Art of Difficult Conversations: Tools and techniques for community housing

 

October 24, 2024 | 2:00-4:00pm (ET)

Webinar: Tent Cities

 

November 5, 2024 | 1:00-3:00pm (ET)

Webinar: Domestic Violence in your Workplace

 

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Housing on the Hill Day 2024

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CHRA News

The CHRA Awards are back! We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 CHRA Awards.

Oct 1, 2024

We’ve been hard at work retooling our awards program for 2025 to better reflect the…

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Response to the Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Public Lands for Homes Discussion Paper

Sep 19, 2024

In late August, Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) released a discussion paper on the…

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Housing on the Hill 2024 – Registration is now open!

Sep 17, 2024

Housing on the Hill Day is an annual event organized by CHRA that facilitates meetings…

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Acknowledging the Land on Which We Live

The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association acknowledges that our offices, located in Ottawa, are on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial. Further, CHRA respects and affirms the inherent and Treaty Rights of all Indigenous Peoples across this land.