Week in Review: April 11, 2025

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that ECOHH noted this week:

From ECOHH’s social media

• Acorn Votes 2025

• Does your work involve directly supporting individuals experiencing homelessness? Share your perspective to help inform practice, education and policy related to working in the health and homelessness sector by taking a 15 to 20-minute survey on your experiences and needs in this important workforce!

• ‘It’s An Angry Community’: Misperceptions of Homelessness in Mid-size Cities

• Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing

• No Place to Grow Old | OFFICIAL TRAILER

• Domestic violence shelter capacity far too small

• See agenda item 7.1 for a proposal regarding Indigenous-led housing, and item 7.2 for a report on addressing homelessness, to be considered by City Council tomorrow, April 8

• See pages 15-16 for Canadian Labour Congress key housing issues in the current election campaign

Relevant housing news 

• Have renters been forgotten this election campaign?

• Wood’s Homes receives new grant to help get at-risk youth housed

• More supportive, affordable housing available for N.S. youth, young families 

• Vancouver Island First Nation chips away at housing shortage with new development

• Creating affordable housing options

• Encampment fire prompts political push to shut down service depot and relocate homeless Londoners

• The number of sheltered homeless people has increased by 15% in Quebec

• Number of homeless people in Ottawa has grown to 3,000, local charity says

• What are the main parties’ housing platforms?

• How Canada’s political parties want to address housing

• Housing remains top issue for many voters ahead of federal election

• A rent increase is pushing these families out of their homes

• Long-term residents of Alberta campground face housing dilemma

• Regina housing organization releases 5-year plan to end homelessness

• ‘Means the world’: Tiny home removed from Toronto park after resident given full time housing

• Saskatoon city councillors fed up with lack of long-term homelessness solutions

• Funding cut could leave vulnerable seniors at risk of homelessness, B.C. charity says

As always, we recommend checking out these sources for additional information on housing and homelessness

• Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) 

• Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

• Canadian Housing & Renewal Association (CHRA) 

• Federal Housing Advocate

• Homeless Hub (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness) 

• Homeward Trust 

• Housing Complex  

• Make the Shift   

• National Right to Housing Network (NRHN)  

• Social Housing & Human Rights (SHHR) 

• Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network