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Stories & Updates

Discover the stories of communities at the centre of Canada’s housing crisis, and how the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) is helping to advance their right to an adequate, accessible and affordable place to call home.

Stories & Updates

Understanding Low-end of Market Rental Housing in Canada

21 Sep 2023 – The Low-end of Market Rental (LEMR) Housing Monitor project aims to build an understanding of the scale of and change in affordable housing stock in Canada, through the lens of six major urban centres: Greater Toronto Area, Metro Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Winnipeg and Halifax.

Stories & Updates

Developing National Rights-Based and Gender-Sensitive Shelter Standards

29 Jun 2023 – The Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) is proud to be partnering with the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network and the National Right to Housing Network on a project that aims to develop and prototype national shelter standards that adopt a rights-based and gender-sensitive approach that will help improve emergency shelter service delivery.

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Prioritizing alternatives to eviction in Manitoba

21 Jun 2023 – The Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) is proud to be partnering with the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and other non-profit organizations in Manitoba on a project that aims to prevent unnecessary evictions of vulnerable households in the province.

Stories & Updates

Announcing the recipients of the 2023 Canadian Right to Housing Research Fellowship

3 Mar 2023 – The Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Canadian Right to Housing Research Fellowships.

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Understanding and Estimating Hidden Homelessness in Saskatoon

22 Feb 2023 – Hidden homelessness is experienced by many people across the country, but there has been great difficulty in understanding the extent of the problem as it is an invisible form of homelessness. This is why at CCHR we have developed a pilot project in Saskatoon to understand and enumerate hidden homelessness, in order to better serve the housing needs of those who are invisibly unhoused.