Title page 1

Contents 3

Executive Summary 4

Introduction 6

What Is the Right to Adequate Housing? 6

Housing Need in Canada 7

A New Housing Continuum 10

Recommended Rights-Based Targets and Mechanisms 18

1. Recalibrate the National Housing Strategy to Human Rights-Based Measurements and Mechanisms 18

2. Enable Permanent, Deeply Affordable Homes, Along with Supports if Needed, to Operationalize a Housing First Approach 22

3. Set Income-Based Targets for 500,000 Homes a Year - 200,000 non-market and 300,000 market - to meet the needs of all Canadians 23

References 26

Table 1. Total unit completions in cities over 10,000 population between 2018 and 2022, and census metropolitan areas over 100,000 population for 2023-2024 13

Figure 1. The Housing Continuum (Government of Canada, 2018) 10

Figure 2. A rights-based housing continuum (Carolyn Whitzman, figure created by Priya Perwani) 11