There is no general grant that pays for a roof replacement in Manitoba. Every province-wide program that touches your home’s exterior is built around energy efficiency, and roofing itself is not an eligible measure in any of them. The federal Canada Greener Homes Grant, which people still ask us about, closed to submissions on December 31, 2025, and it excluded roofs even when it was open. There are two real exceptions, and one rebate worth timing your re-roof around, and those are worth knowing before you assume the answer is nothing.
We get this question every spring, usually from homeowners who have just been told they need a new roof and are hoping there is help available. The honest answer is uncomfortable but it is better than sending people chasing programs that will turn them down.
| Program | Covers roofing? | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency Manitoba Home Energy Retrofit | No. Attic insulation only | Manitoba Hydro customers, no income limit |
| NECRC Exterior Home Improvement | Yes, explicitly | Owner-occupiers in William Whyte and North Point Douglas |
| MMF Home Enhancement Loan | Repairs generally, roofing not listed | Active MMF Citizens under the income cap |
| Canada Greener Homes Grant | No, and closed | Closed to submissions after Dec 31, 2025 |
Because a roof, on its own, does not change how much energy your house uses. The provincial and federal programs are funded to reduce energy consumption, so they pay for the parts of the building envelope that hold heat in: insulation, windows, doors, and heating equipment. Shingles do not insulate. Replacing them is a durability and water management job, which is exactly why it matters in Winnipeg roofing terms, but it is not an energy retrofit.
The federal program made this explicit. Natural Resources Canada listed roofs under retrofits that were not eligible, while attic and cathedral ceiling insulation was eligible for between $250 and $1,800 depending on how much insulation was already there. That distinction, insulation yes and roof no, runs through every program still operating in Manitoba.
Attic insulation, not the roof above it. The Home Energy Retrofit Program pays $75 per gigajoule of annual energy saved up to a typical new home rating, and $150 per gigajoule beyond that. It covers building envelope work including insulation, windows, doors, walls, and attics. Roofing work is not among the covered measures.
There is one detail that costs people money every year, and it is the reason this post exists at all. The EnerGuide evaluation has to be completed and the application submitted before any work begins. If you tear off the old roof, top up the attic insulation while the deck is open, and then apply, you are too late. The program needs a before reading to calculate what you saved.
So if you are already planning a roof replacement and your attic is under-insulated, book the EnerGuide first. A re-roof is the cheapest time you will ever have to improve attic insulation and ventilation, because the access is already there and the crew is already on site.
One, and it is geographically narrow. The North End Community Renewal Corporation runs an Exterior Home Improvement Program that lists roofing as an eligible project type outright. It serves two neighbourhoods, William Whyte and North Point Douglas, and applicants must own and occupy the home. It covers exterior work broadly, so a job that pairs roofing with eavestroughs may fit under one application.
The grants run to $4,500 on the fixed-income stream, which carries a household income cap of $55,000 and asks for a $100 minimum contribution, and $4,500 on the general stream, which asks for 10 percent of the project cost with a $500 minimum. Landlords can apply for $3,000 against 40 percent of the cost. Smaller projects may be funded at $1,500 to $2,500 instead.
If your house is in one of those two neighbourhoods, this is the single best answer on this page. If it is not, this program does not apply no matter how much the roof needs doing.
Yes, though it is a loan rather than a grant. The Manitoba Metis Federation runs a Home Enhancement Loan Program offering a one-time forgivable loan of up to $18,000 in southern Manitoba and $25,000 north of the 53rd parallel. Forgivable means it is not repaid provided the conditions are met, including living in the home as a primary residence for five years afterward.
Applicants must be active MMF Citizens, Manitoba residents for at least six months, with household income no higher than $90,000 and liquid assets under $300,000. The published eligible expenses cover emergency repairs, renovations, accessibility work, and electrical, water and sewer infrastructure. Roofing is not named in that list, so the honest advice is to ask MMF directly about your specific job rather than assume either way.
A 1912 two-and-a-half storey in William Whyte, original cedar over strapping, owner-occupied. This is the one case on the page with a straightforward answer. The NECRC program lists roofing as eligible, the house is inside the boundary, and the owner occupies it. Apply there first, then price the re-roof around whatever comes through.
A 1958 bungalow in East Kildonan with six inches of blown-in attic insulation and curling shingles. Nothing pays for the shingles. The attic is a different story, because sixty year old insulation levels are usually well below current standards, and topping it up during the re-roof is eligible under Efficiency Manitoba. Book the EnerGuide before the tear-off, not after. While the roof is open is also when soffit and fascia work and proper intake ventilation are cheapest to correct, and poor attic ventilation is what drives the ice dams most of these houses get in February, and what turns into a call for rooftop snow and ice dam removal by the time it is leaking.
A 2004 two storey in Charleswood with hail bruising after a summer storm. No grant applies here and none is needed. Storm and hail damage runs through home insurance, not a government program, and that is a completely separate process from anything on this page. If a storm has come through, a documented hail damage assessment or storm damage repair is the route, not a grant application.
Tax credits are a different mechanism from grants and they are worth asking your accountant about rather than us. The federal Home Accessibility Tax Credit and the Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit both exist, but they are tied to accessibility work and secondary suites, not to roof condition. We are roofers, not tax advisors, and we would rather point you to someone qualified than guess at your return.
Not a province-wide one. Several other provinces run seniors home repair programs, including Alberta, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and British Columbia, but Manitoba’s listed housing programs are energy efficiency programs rather than general repair grants, and none of them cover roofing. The NECRC program in William Whyte and North Point Douglas has a fixed-income stream with a $55,000 household income cap that many seniors would meet, and it does cover roofing, but only inside those two neighbourhoods.
The province’s own listings point to three: the Energy Efficiency Assistance Program for limited-income households, the Home Insulation Program for attic, wall and foundation insulation, and Manitoba Hydro’s Home Energy Efficiency Loan for financing upgrades. All three are energy programs. None of them lists roof repair or replacement as an eligible expense.
No. Efficiency Manitoba’s Home Energy Retrofit Program covers building envelope work such as insulation, windows, doors and attics, and roofing is not a covered measure. Attic insulation installed at the same time as a re-roof can qualify, provided the EnerGuide evaluation is done and the application submitted before the work starts.
No. Natural Resources Canada listed roofs under retrofits that were not eligible for the whole life of the program. Attic, cathedral ceiling and flat roof insulation was eligible for $250 to $1,800, and a self-adhering roofing underlayment applied to an entire roof qualified for $150 as a climate resiliency measure when combined with another retrofit. The grant itself closed on December 31, 2025, so none of it is claimable now.
Yes, through the attic rather than the roof. Book an EnerGuide evaluation and submit the Efficiency Manitoba application before the tear-off, then have the attic insulation brought up while the roof is open. The rebate is calculated on energy saved, so it is the insulation that earns it. Doing it during a re-roof simply makes the insulation work cheaper and easier to access.
A straightforward shingle replacement on a house generally does not require a building permit, but structural work does, and so does changing the roof structure or decking in some cases. Because this varies with the specific job, confirm with the City of Winnipeg before assuming either way. It is a quick call and it is cheaper than finding out afterward.
If you are weighing a re-roof and wondering whether any of this applies to your address, Andrew will tell you straight which of these you can and cannot use. Have a look at how we handle roof replacement, or ask about timing the attic work so the Efficiency Manitoba application lands before the crew does.
Program details and amounts were verified against each program’s own published page in August 2026. Funding programs change and close with little notice, so confirm current terms with the administering organization before making a decision.
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