Talk:Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Results of Merge

I have merged with information from Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. This has resulted in some poor prose, (duplicated info, etc.) which should be fixed up. I also created a section (Large Projects) which can be expanded upon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Henderson (talk • contribs) 14:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

CMHC Influencing Calgary

Are you sure that it was NE Calgary that was influenced by the CMHC? After all the article stated that the NE quadrant of the city has a view of the mountains, but the mountains are to the WEST of Calgary... rasblue 03:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

The NE is actually at a higher elevation than the west aparently. I learned about this in a Canadian Studies class at the U of Calgary from renowned professor and writer Max Foran, who's been studying Calgary's history for decades. Kilter 22:56, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

New image of headquarters building

I've just uploaded File:CMHC headquarters Building A.jpg to the Wikimedia Commons, and I offer it as a replacement for File:CMHC building.JPG which is currently on the article page. However, I'm new here and don't want to step on anyone's toes, so I would rather someone else make the substitution if it's warranted. --Robkelk (talk) 00:13, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

It's been a half-month, and nobody else has made this replacement. Is the replacement image not wanted, or does nobody read this talk page? --Robkelk (talk) 16:31, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

It's been another half-month, and there have been no replies. I assume nobody cares; I'll make the replacement myself. --Robkelk (talk) 16:11, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

References to CMHC in text

CMHC should never be referred to as "the CMHC" as it is not mentioned this way at all by CMHC or any other Government texts. The standard way to address it should be Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or CMHC, but never THE CMHC or THE Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Just a small style note. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.49.245.180 (talk) 00:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Problems with lack of citations

This article has big problems. Almost nothing is cited. There are several unfounded POV statements about "conservative government" and radical new policies, etc... A lot of it seems like original research in places, specifically the recent developments section. JettaMann (talk) 14:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Use of adverbs

This article uses adverbs inappropriate for an informational article. For example "drastically increased" should merely be "increased" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.66.249.182 (talk) 19:25, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

SPAM

this looks like SPAMChiliconwiki (talk) 22:40, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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Neutral Point Of View Issue

The list of references shows that this article draws heavily from documents produced by the CMHC itself. Many parts of the article seem to come directly from a brochure praising the CHMC, for example in Section History:

"The 1990s introduced a new era of science and technology, including the development of FlexHousing™, barrier-free housing, and Healthy Housing™, a concept of energy efficiency and resource conservation in home construction."

"In 1996 CMHC introduced emili, an automated insurance underwriting system that moves application approval times from days to seconds—making it easier for Canadian homebuyers to obtain mortgage loan insurance."

In the second excerpt, the claim of a causal link between the implementation of a faster underwriting system and the difficulty of Canadian homebuyers to obtain mortgage loan insurance is not clear and would require further justification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magicbretzel (talk • contribs) 06:32, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

I agree; the article has way too much sourced to primary sources. The {{POV}} tag is reasonable and I've added {{Primary sources}}. Wikipedia doesn't need to detail all of the CMHC's programs - readers can go to the official website for that. I hope to make an attempt to clean it up myself... -M.nelson (talk) 11:12, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Removed general references from article

The article has had {{More footnotes}} and {{Citation style}} tagged since 2016, but almost all of the article is well-sourced with inline citations. Since inline citations are doing the legwork, I've removed this list of general references from the article. If any of them can be used to source the article, please add them back using inline citations. -M.nelson (talk) 11:04, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

List of refs

• Stewart, Douglas (23 May 2013). "Human Resources Committee on May 23rd, 2013". Open Parliament. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
• Bryce, Robert (1986) Maturing in Hard Times - Canada's Department of Finance Through the Great Depression. The Institute of Public Administration of Canada. pp. 163–171.
• Bumsted, J. M. (Oct–Nov 1992). "Home sweet suburb". Beaver. 72 (5): 26–34.
• 2015 Annual Report, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
• Hulchanski, J. David (9 May 2003). What Factors Shape Canadian Housing Policy? The Intergovernmental Role in Canada's Housing System (PDF). Conference on Municipal-Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
• How Much Does CMHC Mortgage Loan Insurance Cost?. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
• Announcement — Municipal Infrastructure Lending Program (Speech). Québec City, Québec: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 11 June 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Quarterly Financial Report, 31 March 2016 https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/corp/about/core/upload/quarterly-financial-report-march-2016.pdf
• Quarterly Financial Report (PDF) (Report).
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• "Minister Finley delivers keynote address at conference on housing and homelessness" (Press release). Employment and Social Development Canada. 18 February 2009.
• "Economic Analysis of the Statutory Requirement for Insurance on High-Ratio Mortgage Loans (Report)". Department of Finance Canada. 26 May 2005.
• "Backgrounder Residential Mortgage Insurance" (Press release). Department of Finance Canada. 3 November 2008.
• The Insured Mortgage Purchase Program, Jean-François Nadeau, Library of Parliament, 13 March 2009 [2]
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Quarterly Financial Report, 31 March 2013 [3]
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Quarterly Financial Report, 31 March 2015 [4]
• Government of Canada Takes Action to Strengthen Housing Financing (Press release). Department of Finance Canada. 16 February 2010.
• The Harper Government Takes Prudent Action to Support the Long-Term Stability of Canada's Housing Market (Press release). Department of Finance Canada. 17 January 2011.
• "Harper Government Takes Further Action to Strengthen Canada's Housing Market" (Press release). Department of Finance Canada. 21 June 2012.
• "CMHC adds 40-year term, 100% funds as products". National Post. 20 November 2006.
• Perkins, Tara (22 October 2012). "Flaherty eyes privatization of CMHC". The Globe and Mail.