Building a Human Rights and Youth-Centred Approach to Eviction Law and Practice:

Toronto is located on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. [...] 1 Therefore, preventing youth eviction We also asked participants to should be high up on the agendas collaboratively and creatively of policymakers and anyone who imagine what a human rights- seeks to address youth centred and prevention-oriented homelessness and uphold the approach to eviction law and human right to housing in Canada. [...] What emerged in our workshops However, Canadian eviction laws was a vision of a rental housing and processes do not tend to system grounded in a commitment prioritize eviction prevention, nor do to the human right to housing and they explicitly take account of the the needs of the most vulnerable harms of eviction for youth. [...] Therefore, it is the safety, security, and cleanliness important to increase education of the units and managing the and tenants’ access to information maintenance of mailboxes, doors, so they can be taken advantage of and lighting of the units. [...] Both groups Relationship / Communication also addressed the importance of organizations and other social Both groups discussed humanizing supports and the need for further the housing system and the need supports and funding to address for better landlord and tenant service accessibility.