The Shelter Capacity Report is a descriptive account of capacity statistics for emergency homeless shelters in Canada.  The number of emergency shelter facilities and the number of permanent beds are reported for each province and territory, as well as by community.  In addition, brief overviews of Transitional Housing facilities and Violence Against Women shelters are provided in the appendices.

This report is provided annually by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS). The information in this report was obtained from the National Service Provider List (NSPL), a comprehensive listing of homeless shelters in Canada. This list is maintained by ESDC as part of the National Homelessness Information System (NHIS), a data development initiative that focuses on the collection and analysis of homeless shelter data in Canada.