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CHAPTER D-4
The Front Line Defence: Housing and
Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19
Leilani Farha* and Kaitlin Schwan**
Abstract
COVID-19 has laid bare the failure of Canadian governments to
effectively implement the right to housing. In this chapter, we argue
the pandemic presents Canada with the opportunity to correct the
structural weaknesses of our housing system to ensure housing for
all and reposition housing as a social good rather than a commodity.
We explore how housing status has been determinative of outcomes
for three vulnerable populations during the pandemic—people expe-
riencing homelessness, survivors of intimate partner violence, and
low-income renters. Their experiences demonstrate the urgent need
for a rights-based approach to housing, highlighting the importance
of breathing life into the National Housing Strategy and the National
Housing Strategy Act. We argue that Canadian governments must
act before this opportunity passes them by; otherwise they will find
that though the pandemic itself is over, housing inequality has only
worsened.
* Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and Global
Director of The Shift.
** Director of Research at The Shift.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International