Week in Review: February 14, 2025

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

From ECOHH’s social media

• Landlords play a vital role in Homeward Trust’s goal to end homelessness, as more than 80% of people in Housing Support programs live in market rental units. Landlords can join their landlord relations program. Contact landlords@homewardtrust.ca for more information.

• Intersections of Identity Film Screening and Report Release

• National housing advocate has a message for provincial governments

• Federal housing advocate re-appointed

• “We Must Do Our Homework”: The History Behind Homelessness in Black Communities

Relevant housing news 

• New Canadians making up larger share of Ottawa's homeless population: report

• North End Women's Centre included in 12 Winnipeg projects receiving housing funding

• Toronto orders creator of tiny mobile homes for unhoused people to stop

• Yes, in my backyard? Muskoka Housing Task Force 2.0 explores new campaign focus

• 'Welcome to Sen̓áḵw': A sneak peek inside Canada's largest Indigenous-led housing development

• Saskatoon activists hold smudge walk for city's homeless population

• ‘Absolutely horrific:’ The median age of death for unhoused women in Toronto is now 36

• Edmonton building different kinds of homes in hopes of keeping up with booming population growth

• Nova Scotia capital plan: New public housing units to nearly double across province

• 7 months after wildfire, temporary housing arrives in Jasper

• Torontonians experiencing homelessness lack confidence in Canada’s social assistance programs

• Some tenants evacuated from troubled Edmonton building 7 weeks ago still homeless

• Fredericton to make it easier to slice detached homes into 4 separate units

• 'Terrifying' reality for adults with disabilities forced to move after care home loses funding

• Richmond cancels supportive housing project

• Concordia students, advocates discuss housing crisis’ impacts on Filipino community

• Nunavik housing in ‘crisis’ as funding talks continue: Report

• Number of public housing units planned for N.S. to double

• Welcome to University. Good Luck Finding a Place to Live

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