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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.

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Canadian Right to Housing Research Fellowship Reports

6 May 2025 – The Canadian Right to Housing Research Fellowship program supported two independent research projects led by Brittany Cormier and Monika Imeri. Between 2023-2024, the research fellows each examined a topic that aimed to advance understandings of the housing landscape in Canada – one in the Capital Region of Prince Edward Island, the other in Ottawa. These reports present the findings and analysis from their projects.

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Research Project: The Right to Housing for Disabled People in Canada

9 Dec 2024 – Barriers to realizing the right to housing for disabled people* are largely unexplored, making it difficult to understand why a significant proportion of people experiencing homelessness have disabilities. To address this gap, this project aims to develop a research agenda on discrimination and the right to housing for people with disabilities in Canada, with the goal of helping them overcome the significant barriers they face when trying to realize this right.

A row of apartment buildings and a large sky above them. The text reads "Stronger rights and protections for renters"

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What renters need this National Housing Day: Stronger rights and protections

22 Nov 2024 – Since 2000, November 22nd has been recognized as National Housing Day in Canada. Despite the decades of tireless advocacy efforts by diverse communities across the country, unfortunately, Canada’s housing and homelessness crises have only gotten worse since the inaugural National Housing Day.

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Research Project: Understanding and Estimating Hidden Homelessness in Saskatoon

28 Sep 2024 – 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.

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Research Project: Building a Human Rights and Youth-Centred Approach to Eviction Law and Practice

23 Sep 2024 – The National Right to Housing Network, the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights, and Professor Sarah Buhler at the University of Saskatchewan are proud to partner on a research project exploring a human rights and youth-centred approach to eviction law and practice, with the aim of reducing youth evictions and taking seriously the lived expertise, human rights, and unique circumstances of youth.