External Research

Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR)

40 Years of Housing and Disability in Manitoba – A Grey Literature Review

Over the past several decades, Canada has witnessed significant challenges in housing, particularly for members of at-risk populations, and disabled people figure prominently...

Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR)

Literature on the right to housing for disabled people

With over 170 entries, this annotated bibliography represents the first comprehensive collection of grey literature on the right to housing for disabled people in Canada, focusing on four provinces...

People, Places, Policies and Prospects (P4)

Rental housing types and economic wellbeing in Canada

The aim of this article is to examine the association between different types of rental housing and household economic wellbeing. Its main objective is to better...

Jacqueline Kennelly

Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life

Burnt by Democracy traces the political ascendance of neoliberalism and its effects on youth. The book explores democracy and citizenship as described in interviews with over forty young...

THECONVERSATION

What’s behind Canada’s housing crisis? Experts break down the different factors at play

Canadians are in the grip of a deepening housing crisis, yet not everyone agrees on what exactly the housing crisis is. The common narrative focuses on...

Social Science & Medicine

Does receipt of social housing impact mental health? Results of a quasi-experimental study in the Greater Toronto Area

Affordable housing is commonly described as an important determinant of health, but there are relatively few intervention studies of the effects of...

Nick Falvo Consulting

Economic and social factors associated with the use of homeless shelters

Researchers seeking to understand what causes homelessness often pay close attention structural causes—that is, factors that...

Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR)

Nowhere to Go: Gender-based violence and housing insecurity in Ontario

Gender-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner/interpersonal violence (IPV) are pervasive problems impacting millions of people...

CBC News

Where can you afford to rent?

Canada is in a rental housing crisis, with affordable homes disappearing at an alarming rate across the country. According to a CBC News analysis of over 1,000...