From 2023-2024, the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) undertook a research project to deepen an understanding of the relationship between GBV and housing insecurity in Ontario, as well as to understand how the current housing affordability crisis in the province is impacting the housing experiences of survivors in five different communities. [...] This can be explained largely by generous pandemic relief programming.35 All of this means that given the upheaval of the early pandemic period, and the unprecedented level of government income supports Research Methods 38 Nowhere To Go initiated by the federal government, the 2021 census is unlikely to be representative of the economic conditions that people in Ontario are currently facing. [...] After a period of sustained investment in social housing, federal investments in housing provision began to decline in the 1980s.37 Then, over the course of the 1990s, the federal government drastically reduced their budgets for social and affordable housing provision while downloading the responsibility for administering and funding social housing to the provinces and territories.38 In Ontario, t. [...] The median income in Toronto is among the lowest of the five communities and or more is below the median income for the province. [...] The community continues to face high unemployment rates relative to Canada to this is the lowest of any of the day.48 Alongside Thunder Bay, Peterborough is also among the communities with communities under study, the highest rates of opioid overdose in the province.49 The high rates of opioid with women earning a use in Peterborough were often touched on by interview participants.
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- Executive Summary 7
- Policy Recommendations 11
- Affordability Measures 11
- Provision of Services and Supports 13
- Addressing Discrimination 18
- Inclusive and Anti-colonialist Considerations 19
- A Note on Terminology 21
- Introduction 23
- Defining Gender-Based Violence, Intimate Partner Violence and Interpersonal Violence 25
- Research Questions 26
- Research Sites 27
- A Note on Intersectionality 28
- Research Methods 30
- Literature Review 30
- Interviews 31
- Survey 33
- Housing Market Condition Analysis 37
- Limitations 37
- Housing Market Conditions Analysis – Community Profiles 41
- A Note on Accessing Social Assistance in Ontario 42
- Toronto 44
- Ottawa 46
- Peterborough 48
- Lanark County 50
- Thunder Bay 52
- Findings 56
- Survey Findings 71
- Survey Responses 73
- Discussion of Research Findings 77
- Conclusion 85
- Glossary 87
- List of Tables 90
- List of Acronyms 90
- Bibliography 91
- Appendix 1: Interview Questions 98
- Appendix 2: Informed Consent Materials 100
- Endnotes 105
