Ontario Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program (RRAP) — Rental/Rooming House/Conversion

Request for Applications

These programs provide owners (landlords) with financial assistance to repair or rehabilitate rental or rooming house properties to a minimum level of health and safety, or to convert non-residential properties into affordable rental or rooming house accommodation. The tenants of these dwellings must be low-income.

Act now: As program funding is limited, prospective applicants are encouraged to submit applications at the earliest opportunity.

Who is Eligible?

This request for applications is restricted to owners of properties in Ontario:

Rental Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program — Rental RRAP

Owners (landlords) of affordable self-contained housing units may apply if:

• the household incomes of their tenants are at or below the established ceilings (these vary based on household size and area of the Province).
  
  Email us to find out what the ceilings are in your area.
  

• the projects have pre- and post-RRAP rents at or below the median market rent for the local area.
  
  Email us to find out what the median market rents (MMR) are for your area.
  

• the property lacks basic facilities or requires major repair in one or more of structural, electrical, plumbing, heating, fire safety.
• tenants are not relatives of the owner.

Rooming House Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program — Rooming House RRAP

Owners (landlords) of rooming houses intended as permanent accommodation for low-income tenants may apply if:

• rental rates for the bed units are at or below 60% of 1-bedroom MMR established for the market area.
  
  Email us to find out what the median market rents (MMR) are for your area.
  

• the property must lack basic facilities, or require major repair in one or more of five categories: structural, electrical, plumbing, heating and fire safety.

• tenants are not relatives of the owner.

Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program — Conversion

Eligible clients are those owning and converting non-residential properties to create affordable rental accommodation for low-income households. These clients include:

• Private entrepreneurs
  
• Non-profit groups
  
• First Nations
• Cooperatives
•  Municipalities
  
  

Eligible properties must be:

• environmentally safe.
• feasibly converted to residential accommodation.
• viable based on agreed post-conversion rents.

How to Apply?

To obtain an application package:

For properties in Ontario:

RRAP — Rental and RRAP — Rooming House

• Application Package — Rental/RH RRAP
• Guide — Rental/RH RRAP
• Checklist — Rental/RH RRAP
• FAQ — Rental/RH RRAP
• "Sample" Application — Rental/RH RRAP

RRAP — Conversion

• Application Package — RRAP Conversion
  
• Guide — RRAP Conversion
  
• Checklist — RRAP Conversion
  
• FAQ — RRAP Conversion
  
• "Sample" Application — RRAP Conversion

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Call: 1-800-704-6488

OR

E-mail: rrap_ontario@cmhc-schl.gc.ca

Please note: Submission of an application does not guarantee that financial assistance will be made available.