Four levels of human rights protections may be used to promote and enforce housing rights in Canada - provincial human rights codes, the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Canadian Charter of Rights and...
Keywords: Housing, Human Rights, Ontario, All of Canada
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, Ontario
Recently, Mark Horvath, the blogger/filmmaker behind invisiblepeople.tv, visited Toronto to document the lives of its homeless residents. Mark usually resides in Los Angeles, but he left California...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario, All of Canada, International
A coalition of community groups in Toronto has created a website to highlight the issue of housing in the upcoming Ontario provincial election and put pressure on political groups to address it....
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
In early 2010, the John Howard Society of Toronto commissioned a cost benefit study and analysis of Transitional Housing and supports (THS) for two types of ex-prisoners moving to the community from...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
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: Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
"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: Homelessness, Housing, Ontario
A site created by the Government of Ontario provides information and tools to help prevent, identify and act to control bed bug infestations. There is information for tenants, landlords, social...
Keywords: bedbugs, Health, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario, All of Canada
Yesterday, the Ontario government released its long delayed affordable housing strategy. The strategy does lay out some regulation changes including simplifying the rent-geared-to-income calculation...
Keywords: Government Policy, Housing, Ontario
The Mission of The Low-Income Energy Network:
Aims to ensure universal access to adequate, affordable energy as a basic necessity, while minimizing the impacts on health and on the local and global...
Keywords: Debt and Consumer Law, energy, energy, energy poverty, energy poverty, Housing, Utilities, Ontario
Precarious Housing in Canada (2010) is a new research and policy report from the Wellesley Institute. Using the most comprehensive and current data, research and analysis, Precarious Housing sets out...
Keywords: Housing, Poverty Research, Ontario
The Right to Housing Blog documents the Right to Adequate Housing Charter Challenge. The court is being asked to declare that homelessness and inadequate housing violate the Charter of Rights and...
Keywords: charter challenge, Homelessness, Housing, right to housing, Ontario, All of Canada
This site provides practical information on tenants' rights and rental housing issues.
Keywords: Housing, renters rights, residential tenancy act, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
Reach is a lawyer referral organization that helps people with all disabilities including people who are deaf, hard of hearing, people with physical disabilities, mental health issues, developmental...
Keywords: AIDS, chronic pain, deaf, Disability, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, legal help, Legal Research, pro bono, Ontario
CASSA is a social justice umbrella organization working with Ontario’s diverse South Asian communities. They have an extensive service directory with listings of organizations from across Ontario.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, African, childcare, Children and Youth, children's aid, clinics, community centres, credit counselling, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Education, employment services, Ethnicity and Race, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, intercultural, Legal Aid, LGBTQ, Mental Health, multicultural, neighbourhood house, Organizing, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, south asian, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Utilities, Violence, Welfare, Women, women's centre, women's shelter, Workers' Rights, Ontario
CLEO now has text and audio materials on eight high-need legal topics available in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), Somali, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu. Topics include sponsorship,...
Keywords: Arabic, Children and Youth, children's aid, Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), criminal convictions, Family, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, legal education, Legal Research, Somali, Spanish, sponsorship, Tamil, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Urdu, Violence, Workers' Rights, Ontario
The Housing Network of Ontario has released a report on community consultations for a Long Term Affordable Housing Strategy in Ontario. This report consolidates recommendations made by many hundreds...
Keywords: Housing, Ontario
Stableandaffordable.com is an initiative of the Wellesley Institute and many partners across Ontario. On their website you will find plenty of facts and figures about housing in Ontario, along with...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, Ontario
Keywords: Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
The 2011 Welcome Home guide (PDF 4 MB) provides a brief overview of the services and supports available in the community that may make the transition to a new home a little easier including how to...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Education, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Ontario
