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The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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Author(s): Kaitlin Schwan, Mary-Elizabeth Vaccaro, Luke Reid, Nadia Ali
Organization: Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network
Publication Date: 2021
The purpose of this report is to inform the Federal Housing Advocate on key housing challenges and housing rights violations experienced by women, girls, and gender diverse people in Canada.

Author(s): Kaitlin Schwan, Nadia Ali
Organization: Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network
Publication Date: 2021
The National Housing Strategy Act (NHSA) establishes housing as a human right in domestic legislation, and requires that the National Housing Strategy (NHS) adopt a rights-based approach. However, there are significant gaps between NHS programs and the NHSA when it comes to protecting the rights of women and gender diverse people. This report employs a rights-based, GBA+ analysis to explore how the NHS can progressively realize the right to housi...

Author(s): Kaitlin Schwan, Mary Elizabeth Vaccaro, Luke Reid, Nadia Ali, Khulud Baig
Organization: Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, Keepers of the Circle, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press
Publication Date: 2021
This survey is the largest national gender-specific survey on housing need and homelessness in Canada to date. Completed by 500 women and gender diverse people, this survey provides insight into the unique causes, conditions, and consequences of housing precarity and homelessness for women, girls and gender diverse people. The report highlights 10 key challenges that illustrate why and how homelessness is gendered, offering 21 recommendations for...

Author(s): Stephen Gaetz, Erin Dej, Jesse Donaldson, Nadia Ali
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2017
Before us is a significant opportunity to reimagine the federal government’s leadership role in homelessness. After more than 25 years of declining spending on affordable housing, the Government of Canada is launching a National Housing Strategy (NHS) with a 10-year investment in expanding the supply of affordable housing and enhancing sustainable longterm housing outcomes for Canadians. A key pillar of the NHS will be a renewal and redesign of t...