Best Practice Guide for Housing Providers - rebranded Dec.2023

Best Practice Guide for Housing Providers - rebranded Dec.2023 Housing Providers Implementing the Right to Housing A Best Practice Guide About us The Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) is Canada’s leading organization working to advance the right to housing. [...] A framework for understanding a rights- based approach to the provision of housing The Government of Canada has committed to advancing the right to housing for people living in Canada. [...] The NHSA also establishes three mechanisms to hold the government accountable to realizing its commitment: the Federal Housing Advocate, the National Housing Council and the Review Panel.1 Adequate housing must be more than a place to seek shelter from the elements, or a roof over one’s head. [...] • Cultural adequacy: This means that the way housing is constructed, the building materials used and the policies supporting these things must appropriately enable the expression of the cultural identity of its occupants and the diversity of housing forms. [...] 6 | Housing Providers Implementing the Right to Housing: A Best Practice Guide The following chapter provides an overview of key mechanisms and human rights principles that housing providers should apply in order to implement the right to housing in their work.