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Toolkit for medical professionals in Ontario: Writing disability accommodation letters

20 Dec 2022 This toolkit is designed to help medical professionals support tenants (their patients) who are seeking accommodations in their rental housing from their landlord under the Ontario Human Rights Code. This […]

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Right to Housing

Youth Housing Rights: A Toolkit for Creative Legal Education

8 Aug 2017 CCHR is committed to making legal information relevant to the lives of those who need access to housing justice the most. This toolkit aims to equip youth and facilitators with […]

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Toolkit for medical professionals in Ontario: Writing disability accommodation letters

This toolkit is designed to help medical professionals support tenants (their patients) who are seeking accommodations in their rental housing from their landlord under the Ontario Human Rights Code. This […]

This toolkit is designed to help medical professionals support tenants (their patients) who are seeking accommodations in their rental housing from their landlord under the Ontario Human Rights Code. This […]

Accessibility & Discrimination
Housing Laws
20 Dec 2022
A group of people reading at a table together
Youth Housing Rights: A Toolkit for Creative Legal Education

CCHR is committed to making legal information relevant to the lives of those who need access to housing justice the most. This toolkit aims to equip youth and facilitators with […]

CCHR is committed to making legal information relevant to the lives of those who need access to housing justice the most. This toolkit aims to equip youth and facilitators with […]

Right to Housing
8 Aug 2017
Human rights and rental housing: A practical guide for service providers

This guide for service providers was developed by the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) when we were known as the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), in partnership […]

This guide for service providers was developed by the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) when we were known as the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), in partnership […]

Housing Laws
Right to Housing
16 Mar 2015
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