Three Recommendations for Fixing Canada’s National Housing Strategy – Homeless Hub

April 15, 2026

The National Housing Strategy (NHS), a ten-year plan to reduce chronic homelessness and housing need across the country, is coming to an end in 2027-28. Unfortunately, it was not successful in meetings its goals, and a key part of this failure was the lack of a consistent human rights-based approach. This means that there is an opportunity to learn from the first NHS and imagine a new strategy, one that respects and upholds rights while making real progress towards ending homelessness and housing need in Canada.

As a contribution to this visioning process, the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate released three reports in April 2026. These papers all deal with the need to include enforceable, rights-based targets in the new NHS, along with definitions of key concepts like affordability. Notably, the authors propose this be done by establishing conditional funding agreements between the federal government and other orders of government, similar to how health care is handled. I will summarize their conclusions below, but here are the three reports in full on the Homeless

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