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AbstractCanada’s National Housing Strategy (NHS) commits the government to eliminating chronic homelessness and promises that realizing the right to housing is a key objective. In this article, we explore how the Canadian government could realize the right to housing in the context of eliminating chronic homelessness. We argue that it is helpful to look at how other jurisdictions have successfully reduced homelessness. In this article we examine Finland and Scotland’s approaches because they offer certain similarities in how homelessness is addressed, yet they also differ, most crucially in how they understand the right to housing. We argue that both of these jurisdictions offer important lessons for Canada to draw on as it seeks to reduce long-term homelessness.
Highlights
In September 2016, the Canadian Federal government unveiled its National Housing Strategy (NHS) via a policy paper: Canada’s National Housing Strategy: A Place to Call Home.[1]
In this article we examine Finland and Scotland’s approaches because they offer certain similarities in how homelessness is addressed, yet they differ, most crucially in how they understand the right to housing
The NHS promised to be an ambitious intervention in Canadian housing policy; it emphasized “safe, affordable housing”[2] and spoke of the “right to housing.”[3]. Perhaps its most ambitious goal relates to homelessness: the NHS promises to eliminate chronic homelessness.[4]
Summary
In September 2016, the Canadian Federal government unveiled its National Housing Strategy (NHS) via a policy paper: Canada’s National Housing Strategy: A Place to Call Home.[1]. We suggest that the federal government’s decision to make the right to housing non-justiciable is short-sighted and will fall short of achieving its ambitious goal of eliminating chronic homelessness under the NHS Both Finland and Scotland illustrate the necessity of social housing and other forms of welfare to reducing homelessness and so point towards the sort of infrastructure and legal framework that Canada should develop. In part II, the focus is on attempts to win judicial recognition of the right, while in part III, the focus is on HF in Canada and whether it realizes the right to housing, and whether it is, in its current form, a human-rights-based approach, as it purports to be Taken together, these parts illustrate shortcomings with both the legal and progressive realization of the right to housing in Canada. In particular we note the challenges posed by Canadian federalism and the need to ensure that all levels of government are involved in and committed to reducing homelessness
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