March 28, 2013
The Vancouver Renters Union is a member-driven organization open to all individual renters that aims to organize all Metro Vancouver renters into a union capable of determining housing rights, rents...
Keywords: Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives
March 1, 2013
The mission of the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHANS) is to promote and support access to decent and affordable housing throughout Nova Scotia. We have been advocating for...
Keywords: affordable housing, Housing, Campaigns and initiatives, Nova Scotia, Organizations
January 31, 2013
The Social Housing Coalition is a non-partisan, volunteer coalition spanning Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, and reaching out to the rest of British Columbia. We are a grassroots coalition...
Keywords: Housing, Organizing, social housing, British Columbia, Organizations
September 18, 2012
The Richmond Rental Connect website was created by the Richmond Poverty Response Committee, to build a “made in Richmond” solution to the housing crunch by providing resources, and by connecting...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, landlords, rent, rental, Richmond, tenants, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia, General resources
May 24, 2012
The Richmond Low Income Resource Directory has a full list of services for low income people in Richmond.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Disability, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Directories
May 23, 2012
Access Williams Lake and Area is a free, regularly updated directory connecting residents of Williams Lake with a wide variety of resources including advocacy, crisis services, health, disability,...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Housing, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, Williams Lake, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Directories
December 6, 2011
Your Legal Rights is a website of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario and...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Health, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), legal information, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, Gateways, Ontario
November 2, 2011
The Newfoundland and Labrador Housing and Homelessness Network (NLHHN) is a group of community-based service providers, municipal, provincial and federal departments and agencies, and representatives...
Keywords: Homelessness, homelessness in Newfoundland, Housing, service providers, Campaigns and initiatives, Newfoundland, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education
June 15, 2011
Many Canadian families are finding it difficult to make ends meet even when they work long hours. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reported that Canadian families in the bottom half...
Keywords: Housing, Workers' Rights, Reports and documents, All of Canada
June 1, 2011
City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community control of local...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Organizations, United States
June 1, 2011
Take Back the Land is an activist group out of Miami that asserts their right to the land in their communities and the use of public space for the public good- specifically, to house, feed and...
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, General resources, United States
June 1, 2011
Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) is involved in a range of housing assistance services in Ohio, including homeless prevention, emergency shelters, transitional housing and...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, Organizations, United States
June 1, 2011
The no place like home website documents a complaint to the UN by the PIVOT Legal Society, Carnegie Community Action Project, and the Impact of the Olympics on Community Coalition (IOCC) about the...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives
June 1, 2011
The Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC) is a non-partisan, charitable organization operating in BC since 1966. SPARC BC focuses on social justice issues and works together with...
Keywords: Disability, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Poverty Research, Welfare, British Columbia, Organizations
June 1, 2011
Community Advocates for Little Mountain (CALM) are working to save Vancouver’s oldest social housing complex - 224 homes on 15 acres beside Queen Elizabeth Park - which is slated for redevelopment.
Keywords: Housing, Organizing, British Columbia, Organizations
May 30, 2011
Squatter City Blog is a blog about squatters and squatter cities around the world written by a New York-based writer who spent two years living in squatter communities in four continents.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, International
May 30, 2011
Abandonment Issues is a Toronto-based coalition of housing activists fighting to get abandoned and underutilized buildings and spaces in the city turned into affordable housing.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, Ontario, Organizations
May 30, 2011
David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Research, Poverty Research, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
Wellesley Institute Blog is a blog for the Toronto based institute with news, reports and research on health, housing and other poverty issues.
Keywords: Blogs, Health, Housing, Poverty Research, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
Calgary Housing Action Initiative is a coalition of individuals affected by the housing crisis, other allies in the community, organizations, support agencies, political groups, politicians, and...
Keywords: Alberta, Homelessness, Housing, Campaigns and initiatives
May 30, 2011
This blog provides news and commentary on ending homelessness and expanding supportive housing in New Jersery, USA.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, United States
May 30, 2011
The City Wide Housing Coalition is a coalition in Vancouver working to save and build low income housing.
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, British Columbia, Organizations
May 30, 2011
Canadian Housing Equality Resources is a national website developed by the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) to provide community advocates with tools to help them effectively...
Keywords: Housing, Tenants' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an international independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation campaigning for the protection of housing rights and the...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Organizations, International
May 29, 2011
(TRAC) is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization working on behalf of B.C.'s one million tenants. They came together in 1983 to protest a government plan to eliminate rent control and abolish the...
Keywords: Housing, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
"I've been a street nurse in Toronto for 15 years. In the spring of 2004 I received the Atkinson Economic Justice Award which permits me to pursue, for up to three years, my passions for nursing and...
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
May 29, 2011
The Dalhousie Legal Aid Service in Halifax, Nova Scotia has created a Tenants' Rights Website. There is a Tenant Rights Guide to help tenants understand their legal rights on this site. There are...
Keywords: Housing, Tenants' Rights, Nova Scotia, Manuals and guides
May 29, 2011
Aboriginal Housing Association (NAHA) website offers resources related to Aboriginal/FirstNations houing/homelessness issues. Mission: "To build safe and healthy Aboriginal communities by supporting...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
BC 211 is British Columbia's directory of community, social and government services. Available online or by dialling 211, where staff are available 24/7 to assist those looking for services.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 27, 2011
This booklet is for home owners who can't make their mortgage payments on legal mortgages and will be going through foreclosure proceedings. This booklet is not intended for home owners who have a...
Keywords: Debt and Consumer Law, Housing, Legal Assistance, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 27, 2011
City of Vancouver Social Development Department - Housing Policy is responsible for the City of Vancouver’s housing policy, programs and research. Their website contains information on non-market...
Keywords: Housing, British Columbia, Government information
May 25, 2011
The Alberta links section of Canadian Social Research provides a directory of resources on development, poverty, unemployment, and related topics.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Welfare, Workers' Rights, Directories, Research and education
May 25, 2011
Housing New Canadians is a research partnership focused on housing access and discrimination in the Toronto area, where about forty percent of all newcomers to Canada settle.
Keywords: Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizations, All of Canada, Research and education
May 25, 2011
A membership-based organization, NAHA/ANHA represents the interests of non-reserve Aboriginal housing providers in cities, towns and the north.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Housing, Organizations, All of Canada
May 25, 2011
BC Housing is the website for the government funding agency which offers housing assistance to low- and moderate-income families, seniors, urban singles and people with special needs.
Keywords: Housing, British Columbia, Organizations, Services
May 25, 2011
Vancouver's community services group housing centre department home page. The site contains information on rental housing in Vancouver, the tenants assistance program, and a map index page that shows...
Keywords: Government Policy, Housing, Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, General resources
May 18, 2011
The Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada (CHF Canada) is the national voice of Canada's co-operative housing movement.
Keywords: co-operative housing, coop, Housing, housing, Organizations, All of Canada
May 18, 2011
Residential Tenancy Office is the BC Government's site which administers the Residential Tenancy Act (Act) throughout the province. The Act regulates the relationship between landlords and tenants...
Keywords: Government Policy, Housing, housing, housing, tenants rights, tenants rights, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia, Government information
May 18, 2011
CHRA is a national non-profit organization representing those who manage and deliver housing programs in communities across Canada.
Keywords: affordable housing, Homelessness, Housing, national housing strategy, social housing, Organizations, All of Canada
March 8, 2011
The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition facilitates the elimination of poverty in the Yukon through awareness, advocacy and action. Our members are an action-based team who partner with other community...
Keywords: anti-poverty, Disability, food bank, Foodbanks and Food, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Organizing, Poverty Research, services, shelters, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, Organizations, Yukon
