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Human rights resources for housing advocates Discrimination is a leading cause of homelessness and housing insecurity across Canada. The goal of this website is to provide housing workers and advocates across Canada with information and tools to enable them to overcome - using a human rights framework - the barriers that keep people from accessing and retaining adequate housing. Because of discrimination, women, young families, people with disabilities, recent immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal persons, racialized persons, youth, the elderly and people receiving social assistance are frequently denied access to the most affordable and appropriate housing they can find. They are forced to rent low quality, over-priced accommodation, "couch surf" with family or friends, or stay in shelters. This website is produced by the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), an Ontario-based non profit human rights organization that has spent the past 20 years challenging the systemic barriers and discrimination that contribute to homelessness and housing insecurity. The resources on this site are provided in either HTML, RTF or PDF formats. If you are having trouble opening the RTF or PDF documents, please contact CERA and we will do our best to send you the document in an alternate format. This website was made possible through the generous support of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation. |
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Contact: 1.800.263.1139 CERA - Toronto CERA - Ottawa
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