CMHC Puts Real Estate Information Online in 8 Languages

In the 2006 Census, close to six million Canadians identified themselves as immigrants, representing about 20 per cent of the entire Canadian population.

To help new Canadians make informed housing-related decisions and find safe, affordable homes, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has developed a multi-language one-stop online source for housing-related information.

A wealth of information is available for newcomers in both official languages – English and French – as well as in Mandarin/Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog and Urdu.

The “buying a home guide”, for example, includes a series of tools that take new immigrants through the home buying process. Visit CMHC at http://www.cmhc.ca/newcomers/.