Canadian governments were roundly criticized this week for failing to meet their international human rights obligations related to housing and homelessness. In presentations Tuesday and Wednesday to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Canadian Human Rights Commission 
and a coalition of housing rights groups stated that our governments had failed to implement measures needed to end homelessness, to prevent evictions into homelessness and to curtail discrimination in housing. For instance, a recent study found financialized landlords disproportionately evicting tenants from Black neighbourhoods and discrimination against women in housing is a leading cause of homelessness for women. As a result of these government failures to protect or enforce rights, the housing groups said, homelessness is increasing and people continue to die from homelessness. The latest one-day count of homelessness across Canada, in 2024, showed the number of people experiencing homelessness has doubled since 2018. A really important recommendation of the housing groups’ brief is that tribunals that consider whether to evict tenants must apply the principle that the severe penalty of being evicted from one’s home should only ever be a last resort after all feasible alternatives have been considered.
You can read that brief here: https://housingrights.ca/submission-to-canadas-7th-review-covenant-on-civil-and-political-rights/