National Housing Strategy Implementation

In 2019, Canada legally committed to the right to housing in its National Housing Strategy Act. The National Right to Housing Network (NRHN) is a group of key leaders, thinkers, experts and people with lived experience of housing precarity and homelessness, with a mission to fully realize the right to housing for all and ultimately eliminate homelessness in Canada.

We are committed to the meaningful implementation of the right to housing. We believe that the key to solving the housing crisis in Canada is to recognize it as a human rights crisis, give a meaningful voice to rights holders, engage with multiple stakeholders, identify and address systemic problems, and develop practical solutions. We know that the right to housing is not a mere policy goal or aspiration. We must address inadequate housing and homelessness as human rights violations requiring urgent and coordinated action.

Housing is a Human Right: Build Canada Homes Could Deliver on That Promise

September 15, 2025 -

Housing is a Human Right: Build Canada Homes Could Deliver on That Promise   Ottawa, ON (September 15, 2025): The … More

Build Canada Homes – Analysis and Feedback

August 27, 2025 -

Engaging in a rare opportunity to help shape the federal government’s approach to Canada’s growing housing and homelessness crisis.  Background … More

Organizing to Advocacy: Information Asymmetry in the Canadian Rental Market

August 25, 2025 -

The latest in our Housing Tell series, NRHN’s 2025 summer intern tells the story of how they went from a … More

Opinion: Mark Carney’s First 100 Days—5 Concrete Measures to Address the Financialization of Housing

August 13, 2025 -

  By Michèle Biss OTTAWA (August 13, 2025): In 2019, the federal government passed the National Housing Strategy Act (NHSA)—Canada’s … More

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