Today the National Indigenous Women’s Housing Network and Women’s National housing & Homelessness Network launched, Mobilizing on the Right to Housing for Women & Gender-Diverse People in Canada: A Community Organizer’s Guide!
This new toolkit will support the evidence- and testimony gathering for the upcoming National Housing Council’s Review Panel on Canada’s Failure to Eliminate Homelessness for Women & Gender-Diverse People.
Homelessness among women and gender-diverse people in Canada has been recognized as a national human rights crisis. The good news: in 2024, there will be a national human rights inquiry into the Government of Canada’s failure to prevent and eliminate homelessness amongst women and gender-diverse people. The National Housing Council announced on September 4 its three-person Review Panel.
The Review Panel will involve two components: written testimony and oral testimony during public hearings where women and gender-diverse people with lived expertise can testify.
The National Indigenous Women’s Housing Network and the Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network has developed a toolkit to prepare ourselves and our communities to participate in this historic process.
Resources
Download the webinar slide deck PDF by clicking here.
Watch the toolkit launch webinar:
The purpose of this toolkit is to:
- Support lived experts and their allies to participate in the upcoming Review Panel
- Provide practical tools and templates to enable Review Panel participation
- Provide tools and diverse frameworks and mechanisms to enable community organizing on the right to housing
- Democratize knowledge about the right to housing in Canada and how to claim it
The Review Panel’s recent notice of intent announcement will be followed by the release of its Terms of Reference, which will outline the details and framework for the panel’s review–including timelines and information on testimony and evidence collection.
