Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network

NEW POST! "Criminal justice involvement amongst youth experiencing homelessness in Canada: Reflections during a pandemic," the second blog of a series co-authored by WNHHN co-chair Kaitlin Schwann and Melissa Perri. Read it here: http://ed.gr/cuvgy

Have you told the Cabinet Committee on Health and Social Affairs to act on women's homelessness? Take 5 minutes and do it here: http://ed.gr/cubsp

ICYMI: Does Transit Matter? Connections between transportation systems & homelessness for women in Canada. Read more here: http://ed.gr/cubsj

The Real Scale of #Womenshomelessness & Housing Need: 42% of women living on reserve live in houses that are in need of major repair (SOURCE: https://bit.ly/3hXhBG7)

The hidden nature of #womenshomelessness in Canada has contributed to a lack of investment in housing & emergency supports. Read the literature review for more facts & data about women’s homelessness http://ed.gr/ctowd

Nanos Research poll on Housing and Homelessness in Canada shows that we are all concerned and connected to homelessnessness. Join the revealing of these important results tomorrow: https://us02web.zoom.us//regist/WN_hNalcLGuRfeUdzSk_MYdEQ

For a true decrease in homelessness two conditions are necessary. Firstly, contradictions between Canada’s National Housing Strategy Act and federal, provincial, and municipal housing policies need to be resolved. Secondly, an intersectional lens must be used to ensure that the ‘right to housing’ inscribed in the National Housing Strategy Act does not have exclusionary results. https://conversationallyspeaking.com//the-right-to-h/amp/

Last month, the WNHHN released the largest literature review of women's homelessness ever conducted in Canada. The data was alarming. This week's Research Matters blog highlights key learning from WNHHN's review, and how it can be used to create better outcomes for women, girls and gender diverse people. https://www.homelesshub.ca//national-research-measures-dan

Check out this blog post from our co-chairs about our report, "The State of Housing and Homelessness for Women, Girls and Gender Diverse People." Read it here: http://ed.gr/cp0uw

The COVID-19 shutdown has worsened homelessness and housing insecurity for women, girls, and gender diverse people across Canada. The @WNHHNetwork details how the pandemic is making a bad situation worse for women-led households: https://t.co/izFPfRTZHS?amp=1

WEBINAR: Learn what researchers and experts do & don’t know about #womenshomelessness in Canada, why it's remained a crisis for decades, and 8 key challenges & opportunities for change: https://youtu.be/jRigwV47Bx0

"If we want to build back better, we need a significant investment in permanently affordable housing that works for women. Recovery for All provides a map for how to get us there at a national level." Kaitlin Schwan, Co-Chair. Today #RecoveryforAll has released a new report that will create 500,000 jobs, save billions of dollars, and end homelessness. Read the report here: https://www.recoveryforall.ca/report

Join our powerful @WNHHNetwork panelists for a virtual roundtable exploring #womenshomelessness in Canada. They'll be discussing facts, challenges, opportunities & the important role that lived experts play in guiding policy and practice solutions: https://bit.ly/3eJV39P

The Real Scale of #Womenshomelessness & Housing Need: Almost 10,000 women/girls experienced homelessness in shelters, unsheltered locations & transitional housing in 61 communities across Canada in 2019 (SOURCE: https://bit.ly/3hXhBG7)

#Womenshomelessness can be linked to failures in #systems like criminal justice, child welfare, healthcare & education. Discriminatory policies and services drive intergenerational cycles of homelessness, housing instability, marginalization & violence. https://bit.ly/3hXhBG7

If we want to solve chronic & intergenerational homelessness, we must address #womenshomelessnessparticularly homelessness among mothers. Evidence shows that adult homelessness often has its roots in childhood experiences of housing instability: https://bit.ly/3hXhBG7

Indigenous women remain the most underserved within multiple systems across Canadadespite the disproportionate violence & housing need. Ending ongoing colonial practices, policies, & attitudes is critical to addressing #Indigenouswomenshomelessness: https://bit.ly/3hXhBG7

"The COVID pandemic should have resulted in a doubling of the effort to make sure that Indigenous women and girls are taken care of. That simply hasn’t been the case." @Pam_Palmater talks COVID, racism, and Indigenous communities with @WOIGlobal... https://www.womenofinfluence.ca//a-conversation-with-pam-/

We teamed up with Dr. Pam Palmater Media, Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network, and Keepers of the Circle to write a letter to Ministers about the ...two actions that can be taken immediately to assist Inuit women who are victims of violence: 1) Action on RCMP abuse of Inuit women 2) Grant Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada’s request for an immediate investment of 20 million dollars for five shelters for Inuit women and children fleeing violence. PDF on our website: http://fafia-afai.org//uplo/2020/07/Inuitwomenletter-1.pdf #VAW #InuitWomen #MMIWG #NationalInquiry

The study, led by the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network, says the scope is dramatically underestimated because women are more likely to rely on precarious and sometimes dangerous support, such as by sleeping on couches or trading sex for housing. This means the scale of homelessness among women, girls and gender-diverse people is larger than official estimates would suggest. https://www.theglobeandmail.com//article-covid-19-increas/

The ways we measure homelessness in Canada often look really at just visible homelessness in the street, but women’s homelessness is really distinct, said Kaitlin Schwan, senior researcher at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, which was involved in the report. https://www.thestar.com//covid-19-increases-risk-for-canad