Laboratoires de solutions SNL – The Shift : a rights-based approach to addressing homelessness | CMHC

This resource, hosted by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), presents the goals of the Solutions Lab related to a rights-based approach to addressing homelessness. This initiative related to the National Housing Strategy (NHS) is aimed at transforming municipal and provincial/territorial government responses to homeless encampments in Canada. Using a rights-based, gender-based analysis (GBA+) approach, the lab co-develops solutions in three learning cities to address systemic barriers faced by marginalized communities, including Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Project team and/or partners: Julieta Perucca (The Shift), Sam Freeman (The Shift), Leilani Farha (The Shift), Kaitlin Schwan (Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network), Stephen D’Souza (Homelessness Services Association of British Columbia), Patricia Masur (Homelessness Services Association of British Columbia), Alexandra Flynn (Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia), Dana Granofsky (BGM Strategy Group), Estair Van Wagner (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University).
Topics include: homelessness, rights-based approach, gender-based analysis (GBA+), encampments, Indigenous Peoples, social inclusion.