Droit au logement

Le logement fait partie des droits de la personne!

Le Centre a organisé un mouvement de contestation judiciaire quant au droit au logement, qui réunit des gens provenant de milieux très divers et possédant une vaste gamme d’expertise. On y retrouve des gens qui ont connu l’expérience de vivre sans-abri ou dans un logement inhabitable, ainsi que des organismes communautaires, des groupes de revendication et des universitaires.

En quoi consiste le litige?

Le problème de l’itinérance au Canada a atteint des proportions de crise. Nous sommes l’un des rares pays au monde à ne pas avoir en place de stratégie nationale à l’égard du logement. L’échec du Canada à offrir des solutions au problème de l’itinérance contrevient à ses engagements internationaux, notamment la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme et le Pacte international relatif aux droits économiques, sociaux et culturels. Le Canada viole ainsi également la Charte canadienne de droits et libertés, notamment l’art. 7 qui garantit le droit à la vie, à la liberté et à la sécurité de sa personne, ainsi que l’art. 15 qui garantit la même protection et le même bénéfice de la loi, indépendamment de toute discrimination.

Que souhaitons-nous en tirer?

Nous ne demandons pas uniquement le droit au logement. Nous ferons valoir qu’aux termes de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés, les Canadiens ont droit à un logement convenable et abordable. Nous demanderons au tribunal d’exiger du gouvernement l’élaboration d’une stratégie nationale et provinciale sur le logement.

Nous voulons inciter le public à envisager sous un nouvel angle la question du logement. Ce litige s’inscrira, en effet, dans un vaste projet d’éducation, d’organisation et de mobilisation.

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APPLICATION MATERIAL

1. AMENDED NOTICE OF APPLICATION (Original Filed on May 26, 2010, and amended filed on November 15, 2011)

APPLICANTS AND AFFIANTS (Affidavits served on Provincial and Federal Attorney General’s Office on November 22, 2011)

2. AFFIDAVIT OF LEILANI FARHA, Executive Director, Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation

3. AFFIDAVIT OF LINDA CHAMBERLAIN, Housing and Mental Health Advocate. “Homelessness and the Impact of Supportive Housing: A Personal Experience"

4. AFFIDAVIT OF PHILLIP DUFRESNE, Housing and Mental Health Advocate, “Supportive Housing Saves Lives: A Personal Experience”

EXPERT WITNESS AFFIDAVITS

5. AFFIDAVIT OF ANN M FITZPATRICK, Supervisor, Community Development and Prevention Services Team, Children's Aid Society of Toronto, “Housing, Low Income Families and Youth”

6. AFFIDAVIT OF MICHAEL SHAPCOTT, Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation, Wellesley Institute, “Housing and Homelessness: Provincial and Federal Funding and Initiatives"

7. AFFIDAVIT OF PAULA NINA GOERING, Full Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto & Affiliate Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, "Homelessness and People with Mental Illness and Addiction"

8. AFFIDAVIT OF MARIE EVE SILVESTRE, Associate Professor of Law & Director of the PhD Program in Law, University of Ottawa, "Criminalization of the Homelessness and Housing”

9. AFFIDAVIT OF CHARLES TAIOWISAKARERE HILL, Executive Director, National Aboriginal Housing Association, “Aboriginal Peoples, Homelessness and Housing"

10. AFFIDAVIT OF MICHAEL BACH, Executive Vice President, Canadian Association for Community Building, “Barriers to Adequate Housing for People with Intellectual Disabilities"

11. AFFIDAVIT OF CATHERINE CROWE, Former Street Nurse and Author of "Dying for a Home: Homeless Activist Speak Out", “Homelessness and Health: A View from the Street"

12. AFFIDAVIT OF CATHERINE FRAZEE & ESTHER IGNAGNI, Professor Emeritus, School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University, Asst Professor School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University, “Housing, Homelessness and People with Physical Disabilities”

13. AFFIDAVIT OF J DAVID HULCHANSKI, Associate Director for Research, Cities Centre, University of Ottawa, "Government Policy, Housing and Homelessness"

14. AFFIDAVIT OF MILOON KOTHARI, Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing (2000-2008), United Nations, “Canada and the Right to Adequate Housing under International Law”

15. AFFIDAVIT OF JANET MOSHER, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall law school,” Women’s safety and Access to the Affordable Housing”

16. AFFIDAVIT OF DR. STEPHEN HWANG, Staff Physician, St. Michael’s Hospital & Director, Division of General internal Medicine, University of Toronto & Research Scientist, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Keenan Research Centre, Li ka Shing Knowledge Institute, “Homelessness and its Profound Negative Effects on Health”