Education Project: Rights-based training for supportive housing providers and their renters

The Canadian Centre for Housing Rights is proud to offer an innovative model that delivers rights-based educational training to supportive housing providers, frontline workers, peer supporters, and renters.

When renters who live in supportive housing know their legal rights, and supportive housing providers have the legal know-how to uphold those rights, together they build healthier and more resilient communities.

We offer the following two training and capacity-building models to introduce renters and supportive housing providers to the right to housing framework and rental housing laws:

1. Workshops for housing providers. The aim of this programming is to build legal competency, awareness, leadership and accountability around accessibility and equity issues to improve support services and uphold the rights of renters. Participants will be provided with ongoing support to apply their learnings in practice.
2. Workshops for renters. The aim of this programming is to empower renters to build knowledge about their rights and how to assert them. Renters will develop their capacity to navigate rental housing laws and systems so that their tenancies are more stable and successful. Participants will be provided with ongoing support to apply their learnings in practice.
   

Related resources:

Housing Laws

The Ontario Renters’ Guide

18 Aug 2022 This guide provides renters in Ontario with key information about the three stages of their tenancy: starting, maintaining and ending their tenancy. It also includes a list of top ten […]

Housing Laws

Housing Providers Implementing the Right to Housing: A Best Practice Guide

30 Aug 2022 This guide and adjoining sample policies offer a framework for housing providers to implement the principles of the right to housing.

Housing Laws

Toolkit for Housing Service Providers: Housing Laws and Rights in Ontario

7 Feb 2022 This toolkit provides key information that housing service providers must know about Ontario rental housing laws, rules and responsibilities, and how to apply them in order to uphold the right […]

Learn more about Ontario housing law

Housing Laws

Starting a tenancy – Ontario housing law basics

16 Feb 2022 Starting a tenancy in Ontario, what to do about discrimination during the application process, rules around deposits and rules about pets.

Housing Laws

Maintaining a tenancy – Ontario housing law basics

15 Mar 2022 Maintaining a tenancy in Ontario, and the rules related to tenant and landlord responsibilities.

Evictions

Ending a tenancy – Ontario housing law basics

25 Apr 2022 Scenarios when a tenancy in Ontario might end, housing laws related to the eviction process, the rights of tenants when they or their landlord want to end a tenancy and processes at the Landlord and Tenant Board.

Housing Laws

Types of tenancies – Ontario housing law basics

11 Mar 2021 Laws that govern the different types of tenancies in Ontario and where to find support for housing concerns.

Accessibility & Discrimination

Human rights in housing – Ontario housing law basics

25 Mar 2021 Ontario human rights laws, which laws protect human rights in Canada, and how the Ontario Human Rights Code protects human rights in housing.

Accessibility & Discrimination

Discrimination in housing – Ontario housing law basics

14 May 2021 Ontario laws that protect individuals from discrimination, examples of discriminatory treatment in housing and resources that may help if you are being discriminated against.

Evictions

Evictions – Ontario housing law basics

13 Jan 2022 Legal reasons for eviction in Ontario, required notice periods that must be given to tenants, what happens after an eviction notice is served, the process at an eviction hearing, and where Ontario renters can go for legal information and help.

Accessibility & Discrimination

Accessible housing – Ontario housing law basics

23 Apr 2021 Laws in Ontario that protect tenant accessibility rights, protections under the Human Rights Code, landlord responsibilities and where to find support if your landlord is not accommodating your disability.

Housing Laws

Renovations – Ontario housing law basics

19 Mar 2021 Ontario tenants’ rights when a landlord wants to renovate a unit, disability-related concerns and how to handle a “renoviction.”

Financialization of Housing

Maintenance – Ontario housing law basics

31 Mar 2021 How to handle maintenance concerns that a landlord in Ontario is not addressing, including their responsibilities to maintain your unit in a good state of repair.

Housing Laws

Pest issues – Ontario housing law basics:

31 Mar 2021 Landlord and tenant responsibilities in Ontario, and how to handle conflict and disability-related concerns as they pertain to pest infestations.

Accessibility & Discrimination

Students and housing – Ontario housing law basics

3 Aug 2021 Legal protections for students in Ontario in on-campus housing, subletting, issues with roommates, landlord rules about guests and parties, requests for a guarantor and terminating a lease early.

Housing Laws

Air conditioning – Ontario housing law basics

5 Jul 2023 Housing laws, rules and landlord responsibilities as they relate to air conditioning in rental housing in Ontario.

Accessibility & Discrimination

Trouble finding housing – Ontario housing law basics

16 Apr 2021 What renters in Ontario can do when they are having difficulties finding housing due to their income status, accessibility needs, discrimination or having a criminal record.

Evictions

COVID-19 and housing – Ontario housing law basics

5 Mar 2021 Tenants’ rights during the pandemic, resources to avoid eviction and mental health support.

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