First 100 Days: Housing for People, not profits
Add your name to fight against the financialization of housing in Canada!
Canada must stop treating housing as a financial asset and treat it like the fundamental human right that it is.
We’re calling on the federal government to act urgently within its first 100 days in office—by August 6, 2025—to commit to the creation of a plan to address the devastating impacts of the financialization of housing and uphold its human rights commitments under the 2019 National Housing Strategy Act.
By sending this letter, you’ll be joining the National Right to Housing Network and over 50 housing justice organizations across the country to call on the federal government to implement the New Federal Government Action Guide, which calls for:
- A reformed National Housing Strategy rooted in human rights (as required by section 5 of Canada’s 2019 right to housing legislation)
- Real protections for renters including national rent and vacancy control
- Major investments into community housing—public, non-profit, community land trusts, and co-op
- Concrete, time-bound goals to improve housing for those in greatest need
- Better data collection and dissemination to get the full picture of the challenges renters face
- Increased investment into the Tenant Protection Fund to support tenant organizing and human rights advocacy and research
Add your voice. Demand housing justice. Send a letter today. 📬
Organizational Endorsers:
- Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network
- Canadian Centre for Housing Rights
- Citizens for Public Justice
- Disability Justice Network of Ontario
- Accessible Housing Network
- Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness
- Community-University Institute for Social Research, U of Saskatchewan
- Ending Sexual Violence Association of Canada
- Canadian Center for Women Empowerment (CCFWE)
- Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty
- The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS)
- The Elizabeth Fry Society of New Brunswick
- DAWN Canada
- First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
- South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough
- Elizabeth Fry Society Simcoe Muskoka
- Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
- Edmonton Social Planning Council
- Fédération des femmes du Québec
- YWCA Canada
- Maytree Foundation
- Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
- Women’s Shelters Canada
- Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
- Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
- Canadian Hard of Hearing Association-NL (CHHA-NL)
- Balanced Supply of Housing
Individual Endorsers:
- Kate Chung
- Sarah Buhler
- Jacqueline Kennelly
- Andrew Crosby
- Isobel Findlay
- Remi Kusimo
- Khadija Ellis
- Francisco Urrutia
- Brooke Matter
- Floriane Ethier
Why focus on the Financialization of Housing?
We know that the private market will never be able to bring housing costs down on their own because developers are incentivized to focus primarily on generating a profit for shareholders, not creating affordable housing—let alone deeply affordable housing for those in greatest need.
Canada’s new one economy genuinely must make housing more affordable—especially for those most in need. Without proper government leadership and intervention, private developers will continue to run largely unregulated, benefiting from Canada’s tax systems, and take advantage of the lack of required protections for renters.
With over 94% of Canada’s entire housing stock owned by the private market—we can see just how dire, widespread, and detrimental this issue is on our ability to create more affordable housing in this country.
For decades, governments have failed to regulate the private market and address the financialization of housing. We’re calling on this new government to take action now.
