Week in Review: February 7, 2025

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that ECOHH noted this week:

From ECOHH’s social media

• Skill Society’s Response to Recent Defunding of Alberta Disability Advocacy Organizations 

• AISH Town Hall

• Strathcona County has activated the Extreme Temperature Plan staring tomorrow night, February 1 until potentially Wednesday morning February 5

• Building Better Futures: 360°kids’ Black Youth Housing Project

• Know when to call 911 vs 211

Relevant housing news 

• Alberta disability advocates question province’s new ADAP program

• Alberta’s New Disability Assistance Program: Progress or Just Political Repackaging?

• Left with $2 at month's end, this woman's among Ontarians urging next premier to boost disability payments

• Deep income poverty: Exploring the dimensions of poverty in Canada

• City to use 11 surplus school sites to tackle housing crisis

• A look at Saskatoon's plans for affordable housing projects

• Report highlights climate change risks to new housing

• St. John's woman facing eviction hopes the city 'learns' from complicated process

• Canadians finding homes too expensive in cities where they seek jobs, says housing agency

• 'Not in my backyard' pushback blocking much-needed affordable housing, experts say

• How many new homes are there in Yellowknife, and is it enough?

• CRAB Park homeless encampment cost City of Vancouver $3 million

• Report calls out Toronto for 'murderous social policies' towards homeless people

• Edmonton homeless advocates seek answers after fatal outdoor Boyle Street fire

• How the homeless community can vote in the upcoming provincial election

• These shipping containers are being used to provide a safe, warm place for people who would otherwise be homeless

• Canada is pushing to build more homes. Many could end up in the path of floods, fire, report warns

• Affordable housing development in Griesbach will cater to Indigenous families and single mothers

• How to best check-in with your unhoused neighbours in cold winter weather, and Edmonton's proposed Public Spaces Bylaw

• Council unlikely to pass latest public spaces bylaw, podcasters say

As always, we recommend checking out these sources for additional information on housing and homelessness

• Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) 

• Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

• Canadian Housing & Renewal Association (CHRA) 

• Federal Housing Advocate

• Homeless Hub (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness) 

• Homeward Trust 

• Housing Complex  

• Make the Shift   

• National Right to Housing Network (NRHN)  

• Social Housing & Human Rights (SHHR) 

• Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network