How do 400+ housing organizations, experts, and advocates feel about Canada’s National Housing Strat

We recognize the ongoing committed, diverse, and expert members to role of colonialism and its consequences for provide advice to Canada’s Minister of Housing achieving the right to housing for Indigenous and Diversity and Inclusion on the effectiveness Peoples, and the ways in which other systems of of the National Housing Strategy and other oppression intersect with colonialism and housing polic. [...] The research reports and this What We Heard report will inform a set of recommendations on improvements to the National Housing Strategy to be presented to the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion in the late summer of 2022. [...] Figure A3: Progress in priority areas The top three priority areas that the NHS has failed to address, according to more than half of respondents, are: • addressing the supply of housing and overall stability of the Canadian housing market (62%), • improving the sustainability of community housing and building the capacity of providers (59%), and • addressing the housing needs of those in greatest. [...] • The NHS’ goal of reducing core housing need “… is a core objective across the board, which is good, thoughtful of the affordability that is trying to be created.” The recognition of the right to housing: • The recognition of the right to housing in the NHS as a step into the right direction. [...] The NHC should press for NHS funding streams to contribute to the creation of a more diverse housing stock, informed by the needs of people with LE, because this is an essential dimension of achieving the right to housing ambition of the NHS.