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Author(s): Michèle Biss, Bruce Porter, Sahar Raza, & David DesBaillets
Publisher: National Right to Housing Network
Publication Date: 2022
This literature review aims to create an understanding of the concept of 'progressive realization' and how we can achieve it in a Canadian context.
Author(s): Leilani Farha, Anita Khanna, Alex Neve, Emily Paradis, Bruce Porter, Tim Richter
Publication Date: 2018
Draft legislation prepared by legal scholars and civil society experts that offers suggestions on how the right to housing could be incorporated into the proposed National Housing Strategy legislation, consistent with international human rights law, and including mechanisms through which people affected by homelessness and inadequate housing can bring complaints about systemic violations and require the government to respond.
Author(s): Leilani Farha, Anita Khanna, Alex Neve, Emily Paradis, Bruce Porter, Tim Richter
Publication Date: 2018
At a press conference in Ottawa on August 14, advocates released an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed by over 170 organizations and prominent Canadians urging the Prime Minister to make good on his commitment to the right to housing by enshrining that right in upcoming National Housing Strategy legislation.
The letter was penned by Amnesty International Canada, Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty in Canada, Canada Withou...
Author(s): Leilani Farha, Anita Khanna, Alex Neve, Emily Paradis, Bruce Porter, Tim Richter
Publication Date: 2018
Draft legislation prepared by legal scholars and civil society experts that offers suggestions on how the right to housing could be incorporated into the proposed National Housing Strategy legislation, consistent with international human rights law, and including mechanisms through which people affected by homelessness and inadequate housing can bring complaints about systemic violations and require the government to respond.
Author(s): Leilani Farha, Anita Khanna, Alex Neve, Emily Paradis, Bruce Porter, Tim Richter
Publication Date: 2018
At a press conference in Ottawa on August 14, advocates released an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed by over 170 organizations and prominent Canadians urging the Prime Minister to make good on his commitment to the right to housing by enshrining that right in upcoming National Housing Strategy legislation.
The letter was penned by Amnesty International Canada, Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty in Canada, Canada Withou...
Author(s): Bruce Porter
Organization: Social Rights Advocacy Centre
Publication Date: 2013
Two previous papers have explored the primary sources of rights which could provide a framework for anti-poverty and housing strategies in Ontario. International Human Rights, Health, and Strategies to Address Homelessness and Poverty in Ontario: Making the Connection explored emergent international social rights norms and new models for rights-based strategies within the UN human rights system. Strategies to Address Homelessness and Poverty in C...
Author(s): Bruce Porter
Publication Date: 1997
This report describes the first year of a major effort to address homelessness in the Times Square district in New York City. The stories demonstrate the difficulty of the work and challenge the reader to continue to grapple with the complexities involved in working with homeless clients. Components of the project described include: concept; challenges; outreach; stories about specific people who are homeless; and results of the program after one...
Author(s): Maureen Callaghan, Leilani Farha, Bruce Porter
Publication Date: 2002
There has been too little analysis of homelessness as a women's issue or consideration of various programs and responses to homelessness from the standpoint of the particular barriers facing women in meeting their housing needs. The goal of this research project is to consider homelessness from this neglected perspective, to facilitate collaboration among women in order to address some of the important omissions and failures of current federal pr...