Please join us in sending a letter to the federal Minister of Housing and Prime Minister. The Social Housing and Human Rights Coalition is urging them to act on our call for a minimum of 50,000 net new rent-geared-to-income social housing units annually for 10 years, starting now.

The people who set policy priority items for this country need to know that the housing woes for the most vulnerable Canadians won’t be solved in the private sector. This approach has been tried since the federal government began to devolve responsibility to the provinces in the early 1990s. Since then, the number of people living in poor housing conditions or with no housing at all has grown. Social housing is an essential part of a comprehensive housing plan, yet governments continue to avoid investing in what is needed. Let’s move forward by mobilizing for non-market housing that is actually affordable to those in greatest need.