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Measuring discrimination in rental housing across Canada

4 Mar 2025 – Over several decades, the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) has consistently heard from renters facing discrimination in the rental housing market. To better understand these issues, CCHR, in partnership with Dr. Gordon Hodson from Brock University, conducted the first ever national study to measure the extent of discrimination experienced by marginalized renters when they are searching to secure a rental home, and while living in one.

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40 Years of Housing and Disability in Manitoba – A Grey Literature Review

14 Jan 2025 – This white paper examines the findings from our research on housing and disability in in Manitoba, presenting key themes and shifts in policy, advocacy, and discussions about the right to housing for people with disabilities that have taken place over 40 years, as observed within the grey literature. It helps identify gaps and needs that are still not being addressed, to understand the scale and scope of the problem, and potential pathways to realizing the right to housing for disabled people in Canada.

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Understanding Informal Evictions in Toronto

8 Jan 2025 – Explore our research findings on informal evictions in Toronto and their impact on tenants, and our recommendations to the City of Toronto to better protect tenants, improve their living conditions and increase affordable rental housing options.

Text reads: Understanding estimating hidden homelessness in Saskatoon. Cluster of images of the cover of the resources from this project.

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Understanding and Estimating Hidden Homelessness in Saskatoon

30 Sep 2024 – The Canadian Centre for Housing Rights and CTLabs conducted a research project from 2022-2024 using Saskatoon as a case study to better understand and estimate the scale and scope of hidden homelessness. The findings from our research can help to deepen our collective understanding of the issue, shedding light on the needs, barriers, patterns and solutions to address hidden homelessness.

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Nowhere to Go: Gender-based violence and housing insecurity in Ontario

23 Jul 2024 – Gender-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner/interpersonal violence (IPV) are pervasive problems impacting millions of women and gender-diverse people across Canada. However, a knowledge gap exists in understanding the relationship between GBV and housing insecurity. To address this, CCHR undertook a research project to examine the relationship between GBV and housing insecurity in five Ontario communities. This report presents key findings from our research with service providers and survivors of GBV or IPV to illustrate how the ongoing crisis of housing affordability in Ontario is impacting survivors’ pathways out of contexts in which they are experiencing violence.